physico-theology

This physico-theology does not, however, prove with certainty the existence of God.

Matthew Yglesias » Time to Play This Video Again I Guess 2009

On the one hand, the suggestion that perceptions and conceptions of natural objects produced moral and political improvement was not a particularly contentious position in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and authors could defend such a position with a variety of schemas, ranging from "physico-theology," which emphasized the moral improvement that resulted from a conscious awareness of the complexity of nature, to the

The Transcendental: Deleuze, P. B. Shelley, and the Freedom of Immobility 1997

Burnet was attacked or defended by nearly every im - portant writer on theology, physico-theology, and sci - ence, with the exception of Newton, to whom one volume in the controversy was dedicated.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON 1968

This is the literature of natural and physico-theology devoted to proving God's existence — and His goodness — in the order and beauty of the creation.

ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE CLARENCE J. GLACKEN 1968

A shift was occurring to what came to be known as “physico-theology.”

Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON 1968

Matter, as distinguished from body, was a 'non ens', a simple apparition, 'id quod mere videtur'; but to body the elder physico-theology of the Greeks allowed a participation in entity.

Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

These prejudicial consequences become still more evident, in the case of the dogmatical treatment of our idea of a Supreme Intelligence, and the theological system of nature (physico-theology) which is falsely based upon it.

The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

In the former case it is termed physico-theology, in the latter, ethical or moral-theology.

The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

Hence the investigation of nature receives a teleological direction, and becomes, in its widest extension, physico-theology.

The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

Still, if we use words strictly, this must not be called a practical, but a doctrinal belief, which the theology of nature (physico-theology) must also produce in my mind.

The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764