ABSTRACT
"The Reformed Objection to Natural Theology", Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Associational to natural theology. One prevalent misconception about natural theology in the Reformed tradition concerns the extent to which Reformed theology has rejected natural theology. Several factors plausibly explain the rise of the twentieth-century misconception concerning the extent of the Reformed tradition's rejection of natural theology. First, some twentieth-century Reformed theologians have characterized the Reformed tradition in this fashion. Secondly, as illustrated by philosophers such as Plantinga and Wolterstorff, analytic philosophers of religion have tended to focus on narrow and more recent streams of the Reformed tradition when it comes to their examination of natural theology in Reformed thought. Thirdly, advocates of the broad Reformed objection' have not been adequately sensitive to the distinction between the propriety of developing theistic arguments. Finally, where philosophers of religion have turned to early representatives of the Reformed tradition, they have typically focused on John Calvin.
