ABSTRACT
The term “natural theology” has a wider and a narrower use. The wider one says, essentially, that we can arrive at some measure of understanding of the nature and existence of God on the basis of premises none of which appeal to mysticism, revelation, or other sources of belief lying outside the area of “natural reason,” which we may take to include logic, mathematics, the sciences, and common-sense observation in so far as it is consistent with scientific method. This very wide use, however, would make all the familiar arguments for the existence of God into arguments from natural theology.
