Natural Theology (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Natural theology is a branch of theology based on reason and ordinary experience. Thus it is distinguished from revealed theology which is based on scripture and religious experiences of various kinds; and also from transcendental theology, theology from a priori reasoning. Marcus Terentius Varro in his Antiquitates rerum humanarum et divinarum established a distinction of three kinds of theology: civil, natural and mythical. The theologians of civil theology are "the people," asking how the gods relate to daily life and the state. The theologians of natural theology are the philosophers, asking for the nature of the gods, and the theologians of mythical theology are the poets, crafting mythology. The terminology entered Stoic tradition and is used by Augustine of Hippo.