1st Edition

Principles of Natural Theology

By George Joyce Copyright 2016

    Natural theology is that branch of philosophy that investigates what human reason, unaided by revelation, can tell us concerning God. The end at which it aims is to demonstrate the existence of God, to establish the principal divine attributes, to vindicate God's relation to the world as that of the Creator to the creature, and, finally, to throw what light it can on the action of divine providence in regard to man and on the problem of evil.

    PART I. THE EXISTENCE OF GOD, I. THE SCOPE AND IMPORTANCE OF NATURAL THEOLOGY, II. THE DEMONSTRABILITY OF GOD’S EXISTENCE, III. PROOFS OF GOD’S EXISTENCE, IV. PROOFS OF GOD’S EXISTENCE, V. PROOFS OF GOD’S EXISTENCE, VI. THE ON TO LOGICAL ARGUMENT, VII. KANT’S CRITICISM AND HIS ALTERNATIVE ARGUMENT, PART II. NATURE AND ATTRIBUTES OF GOD, VIII. AGNOSTIC DIFFICULTIES AND THE PRINCIPLE OF THEIR SOLUTION, IX. THE DIVINE ESSENCE, X. ATTRIBUTES RELATING TO THE DIVINE NATURE, XI. THE DIVINE INTELLECT, XII. GOD’S WILL: AND HIS BEATITUDE, XIII. THE DIVINE OMNIPOTENCE, PART III. GOD IN HIS RELATION TO THE WORLD, XIV. CREATION, XV. RIVAL THEORIES CONSIDERED, XVI. CONSERVATION AND CONCURRENCE, XVII. PROVIDENCE AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL

    Biography

    George Joyce