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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A theology holding that knowledge of God may be acquired by human reason alone without the aid of revealed knowledge.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. that part of theological science which treats of those evidences of the existence and attributes of the Supreme Being which are exhibited in nature; -- distinguished from
revealed religion .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a theology that holds that knowledge of God can be acquired by human reason without the aid of divine revelation
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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),”
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