It's no secret that I'm not a fan of "natural theology". My mentor, Stan Hauerwas, said it best in his 2000 Gifford Lectures, With the Grain of the Universe : Natural theology, far from giving us causal explanations ("god") for the universe, merely results in a theologia gloriae , leaving no room for the cross. But here's my new idea: What if, instead of the usual "first cause" arguments that we get with natural theology, it instead offers us a unification of lots of different explanations? In other words, what if all the various (strange) phenomena in science could be brought together in a wholistic way theologically, under the rubric of natural theology ? What if nature bears transcendence, but not in a "natural" way? Not out of its own essence, since there's no mere uninterpreted nature, but only different constructed "readings" of nature (think Young's Double-Slit Experiment from your general physics da...
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