Реконструкция стратегий аргументации  в конфессиональной полемике рубежа XVI–XVII веков о возможности  естественной теологии

Rodion V. Savinov

doi:10.21638/spbu28.2021.104

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Rodion V. Savinov St. Petersburg State University of Veterinary Medicine, 5, Chernigovskaya ul., St. Petersburg, 196084, Russian Federation

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu28.2021.104

Abstract

This article describes the problem of the possibility of natural theology, as it was understood in the discussion between Catholics and Protestants at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. The topic is relevant because on the one hand, the category theologia naturalis by this time accumulated a lot of theological and philosophical values, and it is for some traditions a system-forming category that identifies the relation of certain concepts of early modern science. On the other hand, it formed a point around which arguments for and against fundamental decisions were built in the field of ontology, epistemology, anthropology, etc. Thus, the problem of natural theology, its possibilities, composition, and connection with the theology of Revelation (theologia revelata) is a fundamental factor in the development of confessional thought in the early modern period. In studying this problem, emphasis is placed on the ways to conceptualize the idea of natural theology, since this factor determined some strategy of argumentation, that a thinker chooses, justifying a positive or negative assessment of the significance of this problem. A special attribute of the approach is the consideration of how the problem of the possibility of natural theology was understood within the agenda of a specific strategy of theological and philosophical argumentation (in particular, in William Ames’ theological works). The approach allowed us to reveal an authentic understanding of the scope and structure of the problem of the possibility of natural theology, characteristic of authors at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, as well as to describe ways to systematize various arguments into a single strategy for positive or negative evaluation of the phenomenon of natural theology.

Keywords:

theology, philosophy, Catholicism, Protestantism, Reformation, Counter-Reformation, Revelation, methodology, systematics

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