Natural theology has fascinated me since I discovered it over a decade ago. The realization that not only the existence of God but also aspects of His nature were knowable and understandable through our experience of the physical world and the use of our reason was mind altering to say the least. I find it almost incomprehensible that it has been forgotten by the modern world and is largely ignored or dismissed, especially by faithful Christians. God, for many Christians, becomes entirely unknowable and inscrutable and resembles, in more ways than one, more common perceptions of Allah. Refusing to utilize our perception and our rational faculties to know the divine, many Christians would tell us that we must and should rely completely on faith. One wonders if many have forgotten part of the beauty of the Incarnation; that we might know God in the flesh.
The Atheist and the Mystic
The Atheist and the Mystic
The Atheist and the Mystic
Natural theology has fascinated me since I discovered it over a decade ago. The realization that not only the existence of God but also aspects of His nature were knowable and understandable through our experience of the physical world and the use of our reason was mind altering to say the least. I find it almost incomprehensible that it has been forgotten by the modern world and is largely ignored or dismissed, especially by faithful Christians. God, for many Christians, becomes entirely unknowable and inscrutable and resembles, in more ways than one, more common perceptions of Allah. Refusing to utilize our perception and our rational faculties to know the divine, many Christians would tell us that we must and should rely completely on faith. One wonders if many have forgotten part of the beauty of the Incarnation; that we might know God in the flesh.