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/nˈætʃərəl θiˈɑlədʒi/ Listen

Natural theology

noun

A theology that holds that knowledge of God can be acquired by human reason without the aid of divine revelation.

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... harmonise them with the kindness, one might almost say the amenities, of a humourist, as also with the popular religion and its many gods. Those vasty conceptions of the later Greek philosophy had in them, in truth, the germ of a sort of austerely opinionative "natural theology," and how often has that led to religious dryness—a hard contempt of everything in religion, which touches the senses, or charms the fancy, or really concerns the affections. Aurelius had made his own the secret of passing, naturally, and with no violence to his thought, to and fro, ...

— Marius the Epicurean, Volume Two • Walter Horatio Pater

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