The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology Available to Purchase

Natural theology looks for warrants of belief in the existence of God independent of real of apparent divine revelation or scripture. It has a special historical place in Christian and Western theology, pervades the work of Spinoza and cuts across many of the historical debates between theologians and philosophers (for instance, about the essentialist reality of the universe posited by Aristotle and attacked by Christian writers). Its importance lies also in being intellectually positioned between theology and science, above all in fields that examine not just the existence of God or a First Cause but also where belief and reason,...