Definition of "natural theology" [natural theology]

• A theology holding that knowledge of God may be acquired by human reason alone without the aid of revealed knowledge. (noun)

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• "Consult also textbooks on natural theology (HONTHEIM, GUTBERLET, LEHMAN, etc.) and on dogma."
• "So we have the creation or intuition of the ego and non ego in the philosophy of Fichte; the intuition or intellectual vision of God claimed by the Ontologists in natural theology (see ONTOLOGISM), W. James's unconscious intuition or religious experience (The Varieties of Religious Experience),"