Return to Natural Theology

By F.H. Cleobury

Dr Cleobury holds that there is a need for a restatement of the philosophical grounds for Christian theism, a need that arises from the changed techniques of philosophers - particularly their pre-occupation with linguistic analysis - and from advances in the fields of molecular biology and nerve and brain physiology, which have led to a revival in some quarters of a refined version of the crude materialism of the 19th century. The author insists that the use of the word 'God' cannot be justified by a psychological analysis of inner, emotional experiences of 'depth' alone. The word is essentially metaphysical. It is not surprising that the theological irrationalism which revolted against natural theology should have led to such fantastic results as the suggestion that we can combine biblical theology with atheism. Cleobury also criticised the reaction, after the First World War, against the idealist approach to theology, and maintains that recent developments in physics and psychology - particularly psychical research - have vindicated the idealist insistence that psychological concepts throw far more light that physical concepts on the nature of Reality.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0227677226
• ISBN13: 9780227677223
• Release Date: December 1967
• Publisher: James Clarke
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.7" x 0.9" x 5.5"