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ˌphysico-theˈology
[See physico-.]
A theology founded upon the facts of nature, and the evidences of design there found; natural theology.
1712Derham (title) Physico-Theology: or, a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God from His Works of Creation. 1776Pennant Zool. (ed. 4) II. 603 This is a mixed species of study (when considered as physico-theology). 1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 333, I more than fear the prevailing taste for books of natural theology, physico-theology, demonstrations of God from Nature, evidences of Christianity, and the like. 1855Baden Powell Ess. 309 A physico-theology supplies no such idea of the Deity as can offer any antecedent contradiction to the representations of his nature and attributes.
So ˌphysico-theoˈlogical a., of or pertaining to natural theology; ˌphysico-theˈologist, one versed in natural theology.
1675Boyle Reconcileablen. Reason & Relig. ii, Some Physico-Theological Considerations about the Possibility of the Resurrection. 1688― Final Causes Nat. Things iv. iii. 1825Coleridge in Rem. (1836) II. 341 The Saturnian χρόνοι ὑπερχρόνιοι..to which the elder physico-theologists attributed a self-polarizing power. 1877E. Caird Philos. Kant ii. xviii. 633 The Physico-theological argument, the argument from design. |