ABSTRACT
This chapter argues the ostensible denial of natural knowledge of God in some of the prominent theologians of the Reformed tradition accomplishes less than it first appears as a critique of natural theology. Calvin argued that inherited and personal sin corrupts the sensus divinitatis and blinds humans to the revelation of God in the created order. The interpretation of Calvin's position at this juncture largely depends on how we understand Calvin's use of the phase knowledge of God'. For Calvin the natural knowledge of God has both propositional content and a moral aspect. The corruption of the natural knowledge of God involves an absence of piety, false worship, and disobedience to God. Theologians who support natural theology sometimes argue that post-lapsarian remnants of the image of God provide a basis for natural knowledge of God. Reformed theologians have typically distinguished between the image of God in a broad and narrow sense.
