Abstract

This talk presents an overview of my new book Natural Theology: A Reassessment (Routledge 2025) which shows that the authoritative sources of Christian theology affirm a traditional view of natural theology that refers to what can be rationally believed about God without using religious doctrines as premises. Contrary to popular misconceptions, Hume and Kant did not successfully rebut the arguments of natural theology, which are still being defended today. This book develops a more rigorous deductively valid formulation of the Cosmological Argument for the existence of God and shows how the truth of its premises can be defended, thus demonstrating the soundness of this argument which shows that God exists. I shall explain how various long-standing problems in epistemology of theology and the god-of-the-gaps objection can be answered by my approach to Natural Theology.