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theology based on knowledge of the natural world and on human reason, apart from revelation.

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Compare revealed theology.

Origin of natural theology

First recorded in 1670–80

OTHER WORDS FROM natural theology

natural theologian, noun

Words nearby natural theology

natural right, natural rights, natural science, natural selection, natural slope, natural theology, natural virtue, natural virtues, natural wastage, natura non facit saltum, nature

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In 2007 he said he had discovered a cure for AIDS using natural herbs.
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Total oil production figures include crude oil, natural gas liquids, and other liquid energy products.
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On top of oil, the United States produces significantly more natural gas than Saudi Arabia.
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More to the point, Huckabee has a natural appeal to a party that has come to represent the bulk of working class white voters.
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He declared that Western women are sexually promiscuous in a manner not even found in the natural world.
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It is full of poetic feeling, and the flesh tints are unusually natural.
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The place was well defended by earthworks and natural parapets, and for several hours the issue of the contest was doubtful.
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In the old world, poverty seemed, and poverty was, the natural and inevitable lot of the greater portion of mankind.
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Whatever the species, it is well to imitate the natural conditions as much as possible in the way of soil.
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Piedmont alone vies with her, and is improving far more rapidly, but Lombardy has great natural capacities peculiarly her own.
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British Dictionary definitions for natural theology

natural theology

noun

the attempt to derive theological truth, and esp the existence of God, from empirical facts by reasoned argumentCompare revealed religion, fideism, revelation (def. 3)

Derived forms of natural theology

natural theologian, noun

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