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| Acknowledgment | |
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| Natural Theology: Introducing an Approach | |
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| "Nature" is an Indeterminate Concept | |
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| Natural Theology is an Empirical Discipline | |
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| A Christian Natural Theology Concerns the Christian God | |
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| A Natural Theology is Incarnational, Not Dualist | |
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| Resonance, Not Proof: Natural Theology and Empirical Fit | |
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| Beyond Sense-Making: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful | |
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| The Human Quest for the Transcendent: The Context for Natural Theology | |
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| The Persistence of the Transcendent | |
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| Natural Theology and the Transcendent | |
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| The Triggers of Transcendent Experiences | |
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| The Transcendent and Religion | |
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| Thinking About the Transcendent: Three Recent Examples | |
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| Iris Murdoch: The Transcendent and the Sublime | |
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| Roy Bhaskar: The Intimation of Meta-Reality | |
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| John Dewey: The Curious Plausibility of the Transcendent | |
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| Accessing the Transcendent: Strategies and Practices | |
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| Ascending to the Transcendent from Nature | |
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| Seeing the Transcendent Through Nature | |
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| Withdrawing from Nature to Find the Transcendent Within Oneself | |
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| Discerning the Transcendent in Nature | |
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| Discernment and the Psychology of Perception | |
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| Perception is Brain-Based | |
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| Perception Involves Dynamic Mental Structures | |
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| Perception is Egocentric and Enactive | |
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| Perception Pays Attention to Significance | |
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| Perception Can Be Modulated by Motivation and Affect | |
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| Human Perception and Natural Theology | |
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| Conclusion to Part I | |
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| The Foundations of Natural Theology: Ground-Clearing and Rediscovery | |
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| The Open Secret: The Ambiguity of Nature | |
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| The Mystery of the Kingdom: Jesus of Nazareth and the Natural Realm | |
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| The Levels of Nature: The Johannine "I am" Sayings | |
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| Gerard Manley Hopkins on "Seeing" Nature | |
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| A Dead End? Enlightenment Approaches to Natural Theology | |
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| The Enlightenment and its Natural Theologies: Historical Reflections | |
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| The Multiple Translations and Interpretations of the "Book of Nature" | |
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| The Flawed Psychological Assumptions of the Enlightenment | |
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| The Barth-Brunner Controversy (1934) and Human Perception | |
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| Enlightenment Styles of Natural Theology: Concluding Criticisms | |
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| A Christian Approach to Natural Theology | |
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| On "Seeing" Glory: The Prologue to John's Gospel | |
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| A Biblical Example: The Call of Samuel | |
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| The Christian Tradition as a Framework for Natural Theology | |
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| Natural Theology and a Self-Disclosing God | |
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| Natural Theology and an Analogy Between God and the Creation | |
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| Natural Theology and the Image of God | |
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| Natural Theology and the Economy of Salvation | |
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| Natural Theology and the Incarnation | |
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| Conclusion to Part II | |
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| Truth, Beauty, and Goodness: An Agenda for a Renewed Natural Theology | |
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| Truth, Beauty, and Goodness: Expanding the Vision for Natural Theology | |
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| Natural Theology and Truth | |
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| Resonance, Not Proof: Natural Theology and Sense-Making | |
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| The Big Picture, Not the Gaps: Natural Theology and Observation of the World | |
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| Natural Theology, Counterintuitive Thinking, and Anthropic Phenomena | |
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| Natural Theology and Mathematics: A "Natural" Way of Representing Reality | |
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| Truth, Natural Theology, and Other Religious Traditions | |
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| On Retrieving the Richness of Truth | |
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| Truth and a Natural Theology of the Imagination | |
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| Natural Theology and Beauty | |
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| Recovering the Place of Beauty in Natural Theology | |
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| The Neglect of Beauty: The "Deconversion" of John Ruskin | |
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| Hugh Miller on the Aesthetic Deficiencies of Sense-Making | |
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| John Ruskin and the Representation of Nature | |
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| The Beauty of Theoretical Representations of Nature | |
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| Beauty, Awe, and the Aesthetic Engagement with Nature | |
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| Aesthetics and the "Seeing" of Beauty | |
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| Beauty, Natural Theology, and Christian Apologetics | |
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| Natural Theology and Goodness | |
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| The Moral Vision of Reality | |
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| Natural Theology and Natural Law | |
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| The Eternal Return of Natural Law | |
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| The Moral Ambivalence of Nature | |
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| The Knowability of Goodness in Nature | |
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| The Discernment of Goodness: The Euthyphro Dilemma | |
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| Conclusion to Part III | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |