♥ Two of Hearts
the teleological family
Argument from Creation
St Paul
The Epistle to the Romans (Romans 1:20)
DemonstrativeConcludes that something exists.
- Argument form
- Enthymeme (scriptural seed; visible works to invisible power)
- Concludes to
- God as such (eternal power and Godhead seen in the creation, in the text)
- Premise ground
- Empirical (the invisible things are seen by the things that are made; scriptural seed)
- Modal strength
- Actual
- What it licenses
- Period
- Scriptural (c. AD 57)
- Tradition
- Scriptural (Pauline)
Further reading
- Source text, public domain
The Epistle to the Romans - A scholarly account
Read an exposition of the argument
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