In cause and effect explanations, ultimately there has to be a first cause. This first cause is termed as God in philosophy. It is concluded that the first cause (God) is uncaused having aseity or is self-caused as some Indian philosophies explain.
According to Kant, rational theology comes in two main forms. In one form, "it thinks its object ... through pure reason, solely by means of transcendental concepts (ens originarium, realissimum, ens entium). In this form, it is termed transcendental theology. In the other form, it thinks its object "through a concept borrowed from nature (from the nature of our soul) — a concept of the original being as a supreme intelligence — and it would then have to be called natural theology." Those who engage in the former type of rational theology are called deists and those who engage in the latter type are called theists.
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Bibliography
Aristotlean Rational Theology
https://webspace.utexas.edu/shp9/www/pages/302/proclus.pdf
Development of Theology in German Since Kant
http://infomotions.com/etexts/archive/ia311503.us.archive.org/2/items/a603765000pfleuoft/a603765000pfleuoft_djvu.htm
Revising "Reformed Objection to Natural Theology"
http://www.sfsu.edu/~phlsphr/files/Sudduth/RevisitingReformedObjection.pdf
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