WILLIAM DERHAM: BETWEEN NATURE AND THEOLOGY
WILLIAM DERHAM: BETWEEN NATURE AND THEOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: William Derham is one of the most prominent figures in the physico-theology movement in the eighteenth century. He believed that the investigationof nature, its immensity, its complexity, and its harmoniousness can bring mostpeople to the belief in the benevolent and omnipotent God. He strongly believed in the preeminence of final causality which led him to facing the problem oftheodicy; he explained the existence of evil through the imperfection of humancognition and through the use of evil as punishment for sin.

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