Darwinism and the Divine: Evolutionary Thought and Natural Theology

Theology and Religious Thought

Divine Vision: Islamic Arts and Horizontal Thought

Islamic arts are often identified by their abstract compositions based on geometric principles and spiritual concepts. Using artworks from different eras, this paper highlights the presence of a particular model of thought in Islamic arts in which the hierarchy of perspectival vision is abolished. The main argument is based on the ability of some artworks to be looked at from any angle while ma...

Natural Theology and the Qur’an

Natural theology is reading the book of nature, not the book of revelation, for knowledge of God. Natural theology, as a category employed by practitioners, originated within the history of Christianity, as passages from the New Testament such as Romans 1:20 raised the possibility of knowledge about God without revelation. The best-known work of natural theology is William Paley’s (d. 1805 AD) ...

Physical Order vs. Divine Designer: Celestial Mechanics and Natural Theology Struggling for the System of the World

The concept of cultural hegemony is notoriously difficult. As it is presented in Gramsci’s original writings, hegemony is a cluster of several ideas, insights, and suggestions (see Adamson, 1980; Bates, 1975; Howson & Smith, 2008; G. A. Williams, 1960). This is hardly surprising. One had to remind that the notion was developed to explain very specific historical processes in post-WWI Europe. Re...

Politics and Theology in the Thought of Richard Baxter

universals from particulars and to communicate the results in words. Therefore it is with some care that he draws his illustrations from the universals and the particulars. Is CD, 423. See also Works, vol. 6. H C , p. 22. 20 Ibid. 126 W A L T E R B. T. DOUGLAS Man, because of his social creatureliness, needs and desires to be governed, according to Baxter, who states: The intellect in man is ma...