ABSTRACT
The development of Macquarrie's thought into an existential-ontological natural theology culminates in his Oxford period in an anthropological argument for the existence of God.1 The argument reaches cumulative expression in the two volumes In Search of Humanity (1982) and In Search of Deity (1984). Here Macquarrie's natural theology, based on the study of human being as a centre of freedom, is charted, as it were, from both directions: from the phenomenological analysis of the human condition and from the theological and philosophical concepts provided in various traditions of natural theology (that is, from a typically existentialist perspective and a traditionally ontological perspective, though dialectically qualified and enriched).
