Abstract
In the present paper I address two significant and prevalent errors concerning
to natural theology within the Reformed theological tradition. First, contrary to
Alvin Plantinga, I argue that the idea of properly basic theistic belief has not motivated or
otherwise grounded opposition to natural theology within the Reformed tradition. There is,
in fact, a Reformed endorsement of natural theology grounded in the notion that theistic
belief can be properly basic. Secondly, I argue that late nineteenth- and twentieth-century
Reformed criticisms of natural theology do not constitute an objection to natural theology
as such but rather an objection to natural theology construed in a particular way. I explore
the nature of this objection and its compatibility with an alternative understanding of
natural theology.