TY - BOOK ID - 85468207 TI - On the power, wisdom and goodness of God : as manifested in the adaptation of external nature to the moral and intellectual constitution of man PY - 2010 SN - 0511692943 110800072X PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Natural theology. KW - Natural religion KW - Theology, Natural KW - Apologetics KW - God KW - Religion KW - Religion and science KW - Theology KW - Philosophy of nature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85468207 AB - The eight Bridgewater Treatises of the 1830s aimed to contribute to an understanding of the world as created by God. This, the first treatise, by the Scottish mathematician and churchman Thomas Chalmers, proposes an 'argument for the character of the Deity, as grounded on the laws and appearances of nature'. It sees harmonies between the intellectual and material worlds as manifesting the hand of God in their creation, anticipating aspects of today's 'intelligent design' theory. Volume I includes chapters comparing virtuous and vicious personalities; the concept of habit; how external nature is adapted to man's moral constitution; and how moral and intellectual aspects of mankind lead to the civil and political well-being of society. ER -