ABSTRACT
Since natural theology's meaning arises from the implied contrast with revealed theology, and since revealed theology springs from faith, there is already a pious ambience to the very idea of natural theology. The existence of spiritual systems that do not include a serious God or even a serious Absolute doing duty for a personal God calls for deeper thoughts than that we have a very different pattern of thinking from what we are used to in the West. One way of interpreting the "form of life" idea is to think of a form of life as expressed in a specified community. It is true that theology and natural theology have occurred typically within communities. Thus traditional natural theology turns out to be an indication of possible supporting reasons for a fleshed-out belief that itself is what might be described as a kind of live and living hypothesis.
