Is there a Reformed objection to natural theology?
To borrow the expression used by medieval theologians in answering difficult questions in need of elucidation, sic et non (yes and no). I will argue that while some Reformed theologians (and a relatively small number at that) have opposed the project of natural theology as such, for the most part where we find opposition to natural theology in the Reformed tradition the opposition is directed, not to the project of natural theology as such, but to some particular construal or purported function of natural theology. This point has unfortunately been obscured in at least two ways by some of the contemporary discussions. First, we get the impression from some writers, Plantinga and Wolterstorff for example, that few Reformed theologians have endorsed natural theology, and that most have either been uninterested in or opposed to the project of developing theistic arguments. This assessment seems correct if we confine our attention to theologians like Abraham Kuyper, Herman Bavinck, G.C. Be
