THE SACRED IN THE EVERY-DAY WORLD: DISCOVERING THE POSSIBILITIES OF NATURAL THEOLOGY

• Main Author: P. MIKHAYLOV
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: St. Tikhon's Orthodox University 2011-10-01
• Series: Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия
• Subjects: atural theology; natural cognition of God; natural religion; physicotheological approve of God’s being; transcendental theology; common and individual revelation; analogia entis; hermeneutical circle.
• Online Access: http://periodical.pstgu.ru/ru/pdf/article/1573

The present article attempts to defi ne the parameters of competency of natural theology and the ways this theological information may be applied. The author demonstrates the fact that the natural knowledge of God, the prototype of this branch of theology, is the invariable basis and starting point of religious consciousness. In order to better understand this fact, the antithesis of this principle is examined in the work of Kant and Barth both of whom sought to destroy the basis of natural theology proceeding respectively from a philosophical and a theological standpoint. Finally, the author reviews the methods explored by Orthodox theology of the patristic period which defi ned more clearly the concept of natural theology and sought to discover the limits of its use