FILOSOFICKÁ TEOLOGIE ŽIJE

• Authors: Vlastimil Vohánka

Title variants

EN

NATURAL THEOLOGY IS ALIVE

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This paper challenges the belief that natural theology suffers from a crisis. It highlights the boom of the Anglo-American philosophy of religion (I), the involved boom of theism (II), and the seminal works of Alvin Plantinga (III). Certain prominent features in the resulting natural theology are discussed: the focus on systematic problems; the analytical style; the belief that reality is discovered rather than construed; the interpretation of religious statements as truth claims with objective truth-values; and the belief that sound arguments for answers to certain existential and moral questions can be provided (IV). Finally, issues of natural theology are surveyed: the meaning and consistency of statements about God; their justification from public sources and private religious experience (V). A picture emerges of the genesis, content, and vitality of a great area of contemporary natural theology.

Keywords

EN

NATURAL THEOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION; PLANTINGA ALVIN

Discipline

• THEOLOGY: THEOLOGY

• Publisher: Palacky University, Cyrill-Method Theological Faculty, Olomouc, Czech Republic
• Journal: Studia theologica
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 65–88

Contributors

author

Vlastimil Vohánka

• Studia theologica, redakce, Cyrilometodějská teologická fakulta Univerzity Palackého v Olomouci, Univerzitní 22, 771 11 Olomouc, Czech Republic, http://www.studiatheologica.eu