scholarly journals Review of: Science and the Christian Faith: A Guide for the Perplexed. New York: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press Yonkers, 2020 (Foundation Series). 232 p. ISBN-978-088141-671-8

2021 ◽  
pp. 375-388
Author(s):  
Дмитрий Кирьянов
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Theology And Science ◽  
Orthodox Theology ◽  
Science And Theology ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Science And Faith

Вопросы взаимоотношения науки и религии уже много лет находятся в центре внимания учёных, богословов и философов. Среди множества книг, посвящённых дискуссиям о взаимоотношении науки и веры, встречается не так много работ, написанных православными богословами. Книга британского православного священника и одного из ведущих учёных в области диалога православного богословия и науки Кристофера Найта «Наука и христианская вера: руководство для сомневающихся» представляет особый интерес, поскольку написана человеком, который, как и многие учёные в академической области «наука и религия» обладает естественнонаучным и богословским образованием. The relationship between science and religion has been the focus of scholars, theologians and philosophers for many years. Among the many books devoted to the debate on the relationship between science and faith, there are not many works written by Orthodox theologians. Christopher Knight, a British Orthodox priest and one of the leading scholars in the field of dialogue between Orthodox theology and science, Science and Christian Faith: A Guide for the Doubting, is of particular interest because it is written by someone who, like many scholars in the academic field of "science and religion", has a background in science and theology.

Pragmaticism, Science, and Theology or How to Answer the Riddle of the Sphinx?

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-161
Author(s):  
Søren Brier ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Modern Science ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Process Philosophy ◽  
Contemporary Philosophy ◽  
Unique Form ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
Process View ◽  
Science And Theology ◽  
The Many ◽  
Semiotic Process

This text is written in the honor of my scholarly friend John Deely, discussing the claims regarding the relation of modern science and religion put forth in Ashley and Deely, How Science Enriches Theology. I view it as the confrontation of a Peircean and a Thomist philosophical view of modern science and its relation to religion. I argue that the book demonstrates the problems inherent in the dialogue between a Thomist theist and a Peircean panentheist process view. Furthermore, that they are central to the contemporary philosophy of science discussion of the relation between the types of knowledge produced in the sciences and in theology. The important choice seems to be whether the link between science and religion should be based on a panentheist process concept of the divine as arising from a pure zero or on a theology with a personal god as the absolute and eternal source. I argue that Peirce’s triadic semiotic process philosophy is a unique form of panentheism in the way it draws on a combination of Schelling, Unitarianism, plus Emerson, and the transcendentalist’s spiritual ecumenical reading of Buddhist emptiness ontology and non-dualist Advaita Vedanta. This and Peirce’s synechism produce a non-confessional theological process philosophy. The surprising conclusion is that, because of its extended process philosophical grounding in emptiness, this panentheism does not assume any supernatural quality about the divine force of reasoning that drives Cosmogony. Rather Peirce’s pragmaticist formulation stands out as a true non-reductionist alternative to logical positivism’s reductionist unity science, especially in its form of mechanicism based on a concept of transcendental absolute law. The panentheism process view is also an alternative to the many forms of radical constructivism and postmodernism on the other hand. This is one of the reasons why Deely insightfully named Peirce the first true postmodernist.

Evolution and Catholicism: A Few Modest Proposals

Horizons ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-227
Author(s):  
James L. Heft
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
School Science ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
High School Science ◽  
Public High School ◽  
Catholic Theology ◽  
Science Classes ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACTDuring 2006, two events, one involving mainly Protestants and the other Catholics, triggered widespread debate on evolution and Christianity. The Dover, Pennsylvania case focused on whether intelligent design (ID) should be taught alongside evolution in public high school science classes; a New York Times Op-Ed by Cardinal Schönborn of Austria argued that Catholics should reject neo-Darwinianism. Once again, these debates raise the important issue of the relationship of science and religion, and more specifically, science and Catholicism, and call for further reflection on how Catholic theology should conceive of its role in an age still dominated by science.

scholarly journals Nature as God: A juxtaposition of Vito Mancuso and Alexander von Humboldt in their search for understanding reality

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Buitendag ◽  
Corneliu C. Simut
Keyword(s):  
Feedback Loop ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
Alexander Von Humboldt ◽  
Creation Theology ◽  
Theology And Science ◽  
Religious Perspectives ◽  
Science And Theology ◽  
To Come ◽  
Methodology Of Science

This article’s premise is that science holds the promise of deepening religious perspectives on creation. The natural sciences have convincingly proved that nature is not static, or a ready-made creation dropped from heaven. Theologians need to read nature as scientists see it and engage with that understanding theologically.The concept of resonance is applied to denote this tangential relationship as an eco-social constructivist understanding of reality. Two proponents, one scientist and one theologian, have been chosen who share this view of a holistic reality, and the objective is to determine the degree of resonance viable of these magisteria. A method of polycentric hermeneutics is thus pursued.Although we referred to the concept of consilience regarding von Humboldt’s enterprise, it is not in the authors’ scope to achieve this with science and theology as disciplines sui generis. However, if resonance becomes vital in understanding reality, faith is inevitable (Anselm). If a creation theology seeks a degree of plausibility, it requires the feedback-loop methodology of science. We all share one earth: the closer we all come to a shared end, the closer we also come together and relativise differences. The naturalist Edward O. Wilson suggested that science and religion should set aside their differences to save the planet. Resonance has the potential to let new horizons emerge in our mutual endeavour to come to grips with reality and to map out certain tangentially overlapping magisteria.Contribution: Through resonance, the thought constructs of a scientist and a theologian are juxtaposed. An iterative hermeneutics’ importance is emphasised in the theology and science discourse, if faith seeks understanding and leads to awe. And the conclusion is that the ‘spiritual dimension’ and the ‘natural dimension’ do not only overlap but are tangential, as they engage with the same reality.

Philosophy Redivivus?

1998 ◽  
pp. 86-92
Author(s):  
Oskar Gruenwald
Keyword(s):  
Modern Science ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Scientific Advance ◽  
New Era ◽  
Stephen Hawking ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Science And Faith ◽  
The Brain

Curiously, in the late twentieth century, even agnostic cosmologists like Stephen Hawking—who is often compared with Einstein—pose metascientific questions concerning a Creator and the cosmos, which science per se is unable to answer. Modern science of the brain, e.g. Roger Penrose's Shadows of the Mind (1994), is only beginning to explore the relationship between the brain and the mind-the physiological and the epistemic. Galileo thought that God's two books-Nature and the Word-cannot be in conflict, since both have a common author: God. This entails, inter alia, that science and faith are to two roads to the Creator-God. David Granby recalls that once upon a time, science and religion were perceived as complementary enterprises, with each scientific advance confirming the grandeur of a Superior Intelligence-God. Are we then at the threshold of a new era of fruitful dialogue between science and religion, one that is mediated by philosophy in the classical sense? In this paper I explore this question in greater detail.

Reconciling Old Lovers

2005 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-183
Author(s):  
Michael S. Sherwin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Science And Religion ◽  
Galileo Galilei ◽  
Human Culture ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
Nicholas Copernicus ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Science And Faith ◽  
Do So

John Paul II invites scientists and theologians to work toward a new relational unity between science and religion within the context of developing a fully human culture. The Pope affirms the Catholic insight that if science and faith could live together harmoniously in the hearts of Nicholas Copernicus and Galileo Galilei, then, in principle, they should be able to do so in the hearts of all scientists. Thus, there is no need for any divorce between science and faith. The God of creation is the God of revelation and redemptioru Science and faith can work together for the promotion of tme culture, because ultimately the truth they both pursue is a "Who" and not a "what." The relationship between science and faith can be dynamic and healthy, because truth itself is a dynamic relationship. If we grant that the nuptial analogy is apt, then truly we can say that John Paul's work is an attempt to reconcile old lovers. Indeed, for the Christian, the ground of Truth is itself a triune community of love.

scholarly journals Rethinking the Integrative Dimension of Theology with Science: Syntheses and Congruences

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-129
Author(s):  
Ioan Dura ◽  
Ionel Mihălescu ◽  
Mihai Frățilă ◽  
Victor Cîrceie ◽  
Rubian Borcan
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Number Of Components ◽  
Double Function ◽  
Theology And Science ◽  
The Relationship

If we want to define today's society in one word, trying to capture its meaning, it would be polarization. The interdependence between all social segments, articulated by globalization, has a double function: unpacking the identitary elements that enter in the structure of society (religion, politics, culture, science, etc.) and framing them in a relational dynamic. In this situation are Theology and Science, which, of course, maintain a number of components under their general names. Can we talk about a congruence between these two dimensions of human knowledge? Or they are developing completely separately and antagonistic in social progress? According to Ian G. Barbour there are four types of relation between Science and Religion: conflict, independence, dialogue, integration. This article intends to highlight the congruence between Theology and Science in the paradigm of neo-patristic synthesis , which explores in a phenomenological, theological and philosophical way the relationship between these two. Neo-patristic synthesis is a theological movement from the 20th century, generated by the initiative of the orthodox theologian G. Florovsky.

scholarly journals Gülen on Nature of Knowledge

Aqlania ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 147
Author(s):  
Zenno Noeralamsyah
Keyword(s):  
Ontological Argument ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Complete Separation ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Current Context ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Science And Faith ◽  
The Universe

P This article aim to explore perspective of Fethulleh Gülen about knowledge. The idea that science and religion coalesce in the structure of the universe has been expressed by Western philosophers, that contributed to the almost complete separation of intellectual and scientific activities from religion. In this view of dualism, science and religion both find their apotheosis and its keeping religion and science separating by an unbridgeable chasm. The ontological argument of the idea of giving birth to materialism, which supposes that the nature of existence based on matter. Associated with this, Fethullah Gülen offers a new typical scientific approach that will fuse scientific knowledge and religious beliefs closely associated with spirituality, reconfigures modern understandings of science and faith to relieve the dichotomous presumption of the reason-revelation divide. He is deeply interested in the problematic of the relationship between religion and science, while he does not reject the modern scientific approach, neither does it deify it. The essence of the philosophical thought of Fethullah Gülen (who was otherwise known simply as Hoca Effendi) is that understanding the religious texts and the creeds of Islam should be performed using sufi interpretation and commentary by transmission, without denying current context. In Gülen’s view, religious belief and scientifical reason should be combined, for they are a single truth with two expressions. Therefore, the unification of physics and metaphysics in the nature of knowledge, fundamental concept of bridging science and spirituality, both traditional and modern influences in Gülen's treatment of science will be analyzed in this article, to examine what nature of knowledge is in accordance with Gülen's worldview.

scholarly journals Shaping eschatology within science and theology

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-206
Author(s):  
M Pretorius
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Eternal Life ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Theology And Science ◽  
Reign Of God ◽  
Science And Theology ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Traditionally, questions about  the reign of God, death and resurrection, God’ s judgment and eternal life, have belonged to eschatology, specifically as presented by Biblical scholars. At times, when eschatology has become a topic of debate, it has unfortunately, resulted in accusations and acrimony among scholars. Yet, the Bible is clear about what the end entails; whether that is towards the believer or non-believer. Furthermore, the relationship of theology and science on eschatology has hardly been a topic of discussion. However, in recent times, there have been serious attempts by modern scholars to find common ground between these two seemingly diverse disciplines when it comes to eschatology.

The Age of Enlightenment in Russia

2019 ◽  
pp. 14-25
Author(s):  
Teresa Obolevitch
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
The Other ◽  
Russian Philosophy ◽  
Age Of Enlightenment ◽  
Science And Theology ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Relationship

Chapter 2 tackles the relationship between science and religion in the eighteenth century known as the Age of Enlightenment. The state policy of Westernization which was promoted chiefly by Peter I and Catherine II caused an immensely expansive spread of scientific knowledge and, in consequence, resulted in the first attempts to establish a relationship between science and theology. The chapter analyses this problem from both scientific and theological perspectives. First of all, in the eighteenth century the Russian Academy of Sciences was opened and Russian philosophy at that time tried to interpret scientific data in accordance with theological truths. Yet, on the other hand, a number of Orthodox theologians highlighted the limitation of scientific knowledge. This chapter analyzes the thought of Michael Lomonosov, Gregory Skovoroda, Theophan Prokopovich, and others representatives of the Russian Age of Enlightenment.

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