Developing a Theology of Nature

Larry Chapp develops a true "theology of nature" that begins and ends with strictly confessional Christian warrants.

The Origin and Loss of Naturalism

He begins by showing how modern naturalism arose out of a theological matrix and how it lost its way specifically as naturalism as soon as it rejected that theological matrix. Indeed, modern naturalism is not so much a-theological as it is a rival theology to that of the Church.

The Theological Nature of Claims

All claims of ultimacy, including those of natural science, have inherently theological orientations embedded within them - however unconsciously.

The Modern Confrontation

Therefore, what confronts us in the modern world is not so much a choice between a non-theological naturalism and a theological naturalism. Rather, what confronts us is a choice between two rival theologies - one agnostic and a-theistic in its implications while the other is revelocentric and Christian.