vol. 38, Issue #1

Online Journal Article:PROOFS, PRIDE, AND INCARNATION: IS NATURAL THEOLOGY THEOLOGICALLY TABOO? DOUGLAS GROOTHUIS* JETS 38/1 (March 1995) 67-76

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PROOFS, PRIDE, AND INCARNATION:
IS NATURAL THEOLOGY THEOLOGICALLY TABOO?
DOUGLAS GROOTHUIS*
JETS 38/1 (March 1995) 67-76

Excerpt:
In his Pensées, Blaise Pascal left us the memorable and often remarkable
fragments of what would have been his systematic defense of the Christian
religion had death not tragically intervened at age thirty-nine. Despite his
apologetic ambitions Pascal was an ardent opponent of natural theology, or
what he called the "metaphysical proofs"for God's existence. He did not
argue merely that natural theology is not required for Christian belief to be
rational, as does Alvin Plantinga. Pascal's claim was stronger: Natural
theology is theologically taboo. Others such as Soren Kierkegaard, Karl Barth,
Herman Bavinck and Cornelius Van Til have staked similar claims. --from page 67