Knowing God in the Created World

For hundreds of years, people have wondered what we can know about God based on the evidence of the world in which we live. Theologians and philosophers have pondered this question under the name of Natural Theology, with greater or lesser success. Prof.

N. T. Wright asserts that to answer this question with fidelity requires putting Jesus back in the middle of the question.

The line of thought explored in this course seeks to do just that, through a thoroughgoing investigation into modern Western attitudes about history and its validity as a domain of inquiry. The result being that in learning something about God we might also learn a thing or two about our knowledge of the natural world, and about the nature of our knowledge. Along the way, Prof.

Wright:Defines Natural Theology and the debates which have sustained it. Breaks down and dispels the ways of thinking since the Enlightenment which have made the idea of an active God all but unthinkable. Asks how history fits into a picture of the natural world.