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With the Grain of the Universe: the Church's Witness and Natural Theology: Being the Gifford Lectures Delivered at the University of St. Andrews in 2001.

Publication: Theological Studies
Publication Date: 01-DEC-02 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: With the Grain of the Universe: the Church's Witness and Natural Theology: Being the Gifford Lectures Delivered at the University of St. Andrews in 2001.(Book Review)

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By Stanley Hauerwas. Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2001. Pp. 256. $22.99.

Through a bequest made in his Last Will and Testament, Adam Gifford established the lectures named after him for "promoting, advancing, teaching and diffusing the study of natural theology, the knowledge of God, the Infinite, the All, the First and Only Cause ... without reference to or reliance upon any supposed exceptional or so-called miraculous revelation" [Stanley Jaki, Lord Gifford and His Lectures (1986), 73-74]. Since the lectures began in 1888, the lecturers have come at the task in every conceivable manner, at times even putting the terms of the bequest into question. Thus, Hauerwas argues that the only full-blooded natural theology comes precisely in the special revelation through Jesus of...

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