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The continuation and enrichment of the enterprise of natural theology is of overriding importance today. Natural theology not only might well enlarge if not establish our knowledge of God; just as important, it may enlarge as well our understanding of nature. By articulating those experiences of nature which can be taken as 'signs' of God, natural theology at the same time expands out 'knowledge' of natural reality beyond the objectifying reduction of nature effected by natural science - a reduction that invariably has led to exploitation of nature. Wisnefske's book thus helps excellently to prepare us not only for a new and firmer knowledge of God, but also for new attitudes toward nature and for a deeper respect for nature as herself an image of God. (Langdon Gilkey) I would very strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in natural theology as pursued within the idiom of the contemporary though not analytic approach. Besides the merit of bringing a fresh perspective to the authors it surveys and to the later history of the subject, it stakes out an important and possibly very rich claim. It is an important contribution to current philosophical discussions in theology. (Jay Reuscher, Theological Studies) Wisnefske's approach is a stimulating one. It should be of special interest to those who have an anti-metaphysical bent but who, in this day of profound ecological concern and dissatisfaction with a scientific analysis of nature unconnected to value, are interested in connecting acknowledgement of God with the patterns of natural life. ... Wisnefske's style is lucid, even winsomely poetic and aphoristic - a refreshing alternative to the 'academese' of too many books in philosophical theology. (Donald G. Luck, Word & World) A lo largo de este estudio, que sera indispensable y fundamental en la bibliografia espanola de fenomenologia y hermeneutica, es de alabar que se citen ampliamente los textos de Gadamer, del que aun es poco traducido en nuestra lengua. ...El buen sabor de boca que nos deja este estudio proviene, dicho en lenguaje de Gadamer, de una fusion de horizontes con el investigador y el autor estudiado. (Juan Masia Clavel, Pensamiento)

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