Natur als Gegensatz zur Gnade oder Natur als Schöpfung? Der theologische Naturbegriff als Ausgangspunkt für die natürliche Theologie
Nature as the opposite of grace or nature as creation? Theological concept of nature as the starting point of the natural theology

Summary/Abstract: Today we associate the term „natural theology” with its neoscholastic form, which was not only rejected by Protestant theology from the beginning, but was also strongly criticizedby many contemporary Catholic theologians. It was understood as a philosophical discipline, the purpose of which was to prove the existence of God and to know his qualities only by means of the natural light of human reason, independently of revelation and faith. This traditional natural theology was based on the understanding of (human) nature as the opposite of grace and the division of realities into independent levels of nature and supernature. This article present a proposal for a renewed natural theology, which would be based on the theological understanding of nature (the world, the whole reality) as the creation and thus the place of God’s universal revelation. It would be a part of the fundamental theology, whose task would be to search for arguments for the rationality and plausibility of Christian faith inGod in the nature, to reflect on them systematically, and to engage in a constructive dialogue with natural sciences, other religions and atheism on their basis.

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