deist modes of thought, when it seemed imperative to find some way of throwing a logical bridge across the gap between the world and God? In the transition to a unitary outlook, natural theology suffers a radical transformation much like that suffered by geometry in its assimilation as a four-dimensional natural science into the material content of physics and astrophysics. In the last two chapters I turn more explicitly to the modes and structures of thought that are developed in theological science
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