A Look Inside the New Issue of Credo Magazine: Natural Theology

The new issue of Credo Magazine is here!

God has revealed himself through Scripture, but has God also revealed himself through nature? Some argue that the Fall has erased any form of natural theology, but the Reformed tradition has argued that classical orthodoxy routinely and uniformly taught and practiced natural theology. Theologians in the Great Tradition testified to God’s self-disclosure in creation, but they were not satisfied to merely acknowledge the existence of natural revelation. No, they wanted to read and exposit God’s “second book” – the created order. Indeed, it has been common Christian practice to demonstrate God’s existence, attributes, and providence by arguing from the effects all around us back to their First Cause. In this issue of Credo, contributors show that natural theology is a practice supported by Scripture and exemplified by the Reformed tradition, a tradition indebted to great thinkers like Augustine and Aquinas. With the Psalmist, readers can say with confidence, “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.”

Featured Articles

Holy Scripture Teaches Natural Theology
The many good purposes of natural theology
BY DAVID HAINES

Natural Theology in the Reformed Tradition
Is the Rejection of Natural Theology Consistent with Pre-Enlightenment Reformed Thought?
BY WALLACE MARSHALL

Natural Theology and Cornelius Van Til
A Novel Departure from the Reformed Tradition
BY J. V. FESKO

Classical Ways to Demonstrate God’s Existence
Finding Act from Potency with Thomas Aquinas
BY SEUNG-JOO LEE

C. S. Lewis’s Argument from Reason
The Promise of Natural Theology
BY SAMUEL G. PARKISON

Proving God from Perfection
Can Arguments Save Someone?
BY TIM JACOBS

Christian Realism, Universals, and Natural Theology
A Medieval Solution to a Modern Problem
BY PAUL TYSON

A Teleological Argument for God’s Existence
Thomas Aquinas’s Fifth Way
BY THOMAS HEXT

Columns

On Esteeming Natural Theology
Nine Theses
BY SCOTT R. SWAIN

The Light of Nature and the Knowledge of God
Stephen Charnock on Natural Theology
BY OWEN ANDERSON

Wholesome Protestant Doctrine
Is Actus Purus Necessary for the Health of the Church?
BY TIMOTHY GATEWOOD

Interviews & More

What is Natural Law?
DAVID VANDRUNEN, TIMOTHY GATEWOOD

Ten Questions on Natural Theology
JORDAN B. COOPER

Natural Theology, Calvin, and Revisionism
MATTHEW BARRETT

Book Reviews

Come, Let us Reason Together
CONNOR SHACKELFORD

Aquinas was framed!
JERIAH D. SHANK

The Forest of Thomistic Theology
JOEL WHITSON