Proofs of the existence of God

Armogathe, Jean-Robert

doi:10.1017/chol9780521307635.013

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“…It was certainly not the case that the pursuit of an enhanced knowledge of nature had played an insignificant part in the growth either of the physical endowment or of the intellectual ambition of the universities, particularly of Oxford, in the years before 1641. 9 See Feingold 1997a;Feingold 1997b;Feingold 1998;Costello 1958, 80-1;Lohr 1988 andMaclean 2005 and2006, 20-7;Wallace 1988;Armogathe 1998. giuen us to knowe god by is much more legible (now) & lesse dangerous, then [th]e old blotted booke of [th]e creation. Thus, at both Oxford and Cambridge, the teaching of natural philosophy, or physics (physica), proceeded from established philosophical truths about matter, through a study of inanimate and animate nature, eventually to concern with the soul.…”

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The Uses of Natural Theology in Seventeenth-Century England

Mandelbrote¹

2007

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ArgumentThis essay describes two styles of natural theology that emerged in England out of a debate over the correct interpretation of divine evidences in nature during the seventeenth century. The first style was exemplified in the work of John Wilkins and Robert Boyle. It stressed the lawful operation of the universe under a providential order. The second, embodied in the writings of the Cambridge Platonists, was more open to evidence for the wondrousness of nature provided by the marvelous and by spiritual phenomena. Initially appearing to be alternative and complementary arguments for orthodoxy, these two approaches to natural theology underwent different transformations during the ensuing decades. In the process, a natural theology predicated on the intellectual demonstration of divine power through the argument from design came to predominate over alternative strategies that placed greater emphasis on the wondrousness of nature.

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The Uses of Natural Theology in Seventeenth-Century England

Mandelbrote¹

2007

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“…5 See (Armogathe 1998). 6 "[The ontological argument] could not have any force for an atheist, who would not allow himself to be convinced by it. Indeed, it is not suitable for this purpose, and the author does not wish to be understood in this way.…”

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