Published date: Saturday, December 01, 2007
By: Larissa Johnson
Larissa Johnson reviews "In Defense of Natural Theology: A Post-Humean Assessment".
David Hume was an eighteenth century philosopher whose arguments against religion are commonly believed to have sounded the death knell for natural theology, which can be defined as the attempt to find rational justification for a belief in God from reason and the natural world. In Defense of Natural Theology is offered as a direct confrontation to Hume’s legacy,