In Defence of Natural Theology: Bringing God into the Public Realm
Natural theology has not had much of a profile in Catholic theology in recent decades. This article examines the political and cultural significance of natural theology. It compares and contrasts the context of Aquinas and the `five ways' with our contemporary post-modern context. Drawing on Do...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2007
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Irish theological quarterly
Year: 2007, Volume: 72, Issue: 3, Pages: 227-241 |
| Further subjects: | B
Doran
B Aquinas B cosmological B Anthropological B Culture |
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| Summary: | Natural theology has not had much of a profile in Catholic theology in recent decades. This article examines the political and cultural significance of natural theology. It compares and contrasts the context of Aquinas and the `five ways' with our contemporary post-modern context. Drawing on Doran's analysis of the cultural dialectic in terms of cosmological and anthropological poles, it analyses the context of Aquinas as one of transition from a more cosmological culture to a more anthropological one, whereas our own is a hyper-anthropological culture increasingly cut off from cosmological meanings. In both contexts, natural theology has a positive but different contribution to make. |
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| ISSN: | 1752-4989 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Irish theological quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0021140007085486 |