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Interdisciplinary Encyclopaedia of Religion and Science
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Natural
sciences, in the work of theologians
by Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti, Faculty
of Theology, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome
It is
difficult to summarize in a single sketch how theology has made use
of the Book of Nature since the birth of scientific method. We have
many indicators, some contradictory. Around the 18th century, for
example, in Britain the naive attempt to explain the attributes of
God by means of a physico- or astro-theology, as occurred in the works
of Ray, Derham, or Paley, co-existed alongside the writings of Joseph
Butler who, focusing on the more realistic category of analogy, wrote
an essay destined to exert a great influence on the works of John
Henry Newman...
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