ABSTRACT
Natural theology is the Sick Man of Europe. In view of the subtle and exhaustive objections adduced by Hume, Kant and modern empiricists against the traditional arguments for God's existence, it is no longer reasonable to rely upon these particular supports for theistic belief. The doctrine of the Trinity seems at first sight to belie the fact, and it is a common accusation by Muslims that the belief in the Incarnation, by identifying God with a visible person, is setting up another God beside God. The purity of the Godhead reveals- the sinfulness of men. And the more so because in theism morals and religion come together in a most intimate manner, so that religious impurity and moral defect coalesce. Since natural theology in the old form appears to be gravely suspect, and since an irrationalist appeal to revelation alone is utterly self-defeating, our only choice is to work with the notion of religious reasons.
