KOG: ORDER OF CREATION

Question 1

What does Cicero state about natural theology as arising from the order of creation?

Answer 1

‘for what can be clearer and more obvious, when we have lifted our eyes to the sky’

Question 2

How does Calvin argue that beauty in the world is clear evidence of God?

Answer 2

Not only the beauty of small plants and animals but also the beauty of the whole system of planets.

Question 3

What metaphor does Calvin use for the natural beauty of the universe?

Answer 3

A ‘sort of mirror’ of God.

Question 4

What does Calvin state about the ordering of the universe?

Answer 4

“This skilful ordering of the universe is for us a sort of mirror in which we can contemplate God.”