RT Article
T1 Caeli Enarrant
JF Harvard theological review
VO 34
IS 3
SP 163
OP 200
A1 Pease, Arthur Stanley
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 1941
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1817625020
AB Every diligent reader of ancient literature has encountered, sooner or later, evidences of belief in teleology, the doctrine of the deliberate adaptation of the phenomena of organic life (and even of those of the inorganic celestial system) to some definite end or purpose, as opposed, on the one hand, to the effects of blind chance, and, on the other, to those of a merely automatic survival of the fittest and the elimination of the unfit. Further, from reflection upon phenomena susceptible of teleological explanation, thinkers, both classical and oriental, alike ancient and modern, have not unnaturally passed to a belief that the existence of orderly or purposeful creations necessarily demands the existence of an ordering and purposing Creator.
DO 10.1017/S0017816000022537