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.

Fr. Pavel Florensky

2019 ◽  
pp. 98-108
Author(s):  
Teresa Obolevitch
Keyword(s):  
Da Vinci ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Rational System ◽  
Rational Expression ◽  
Religious Truth ◽  
Pavel Florensky ◽  
The One ◽  
Science And Faith ◽  
The Universe

Chapter 9 considers the philosophy of Fr. Pavel Florensky, “the Russian Leonardo da Vinci” who presented the most impressive attempt at the reconciliation of faith and science. Florensky was skeptical about the possibility of the rational expression of the content of revelation and maintained that a rational system violates the one religious Truth. At the same time, he tried to create a fusion of science and faith in the spirit of concordism. Emphasizing the antinomic character of the universe, he nevertheless believed in the possibility of overcoming the antinomy between science and religion, and of creating religious science and scientific religion.

scholarly journals Rejecting the conflict narrative: American Jewish and Muslim views on science and religion

2016 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 478-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon Vaidyanathan ◽  
David R Johnson ◽  
Pamela J Prickett ◽  
Elaine Howard Ecklund
Keyword(s):  
Science And Religion ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Orthodox Jewish ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Social Scientific Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The Relationship

Sociological research on the US population’s views of science and religion has recently burgeoned, but focuses primarily on Christian fundamentalists and evangelicals. Our study advances understandings of how Americans of non-Christian faiths – namely Judaism and Islam – perceive the relationship between science and religion. We draw on in-depth interviews (N=92) conducted in Orthodox Jewish, Reform Jewish, and Sunni Muslim congregations in two major cities to elucidate how respondents’ respective traditions help them frame the relationship between science and religion. Findings demonstrate that members of these religious communities distance themselves from the pervasive conflict narrative. They rely on religious texts and historical traditions to instead articulate relationships of compatibility and independence between science and religion, while developing strategies to negotiate conflict around delimited issues. Findings push the social scientific study of religion and science beyond a specifically Christian and conflict-oriented focus.

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.

scholarly journals Kuyper’s razor? Rethinking science and religion, trinitarian scholarship and God’s eternity

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Renato Coletto
Keyword(s):  
Science And Religion ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Basic Assumptions ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Contemporary Christian ◽  
Scientific Reflection ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This article explores three research fields in contemporary Christian scholarship and argues that the way they are approached is often questionable due to the basic assumptions, the methods or the implications. The following allegations are proposed. Research on the relationship between religion and science is based on a framework of assumptions which does not reflect the biblical standpoint properly. Trinitarian scholarship expects too much from the presumed correspondence between Trinity and created reality, whilst it tends to neglect other resources available to Christian scholarship. Scientific reflection on God’s eternity is speculative in as much as it tries to transcend the modal horizon of knowledge. In these three cases (other cases are also briefly mentioned) it is argued that ‘Kuyper’s razor’ (an approach promoted in the Kuyperian reformational tradition) would help rethinking research in these areas.Kuyper se skalpel? ’n Heroorweging van wetenskap-en-religie, trinitariese navorsing en God se ewigheid. Hierdie artikel verken drie navorsingsterreine in die kontemporêre Christelike wetenskap en voer aan dat die manier waarop hulle benader word dikwels bedenklik is weens basiese aannames, die metodes of die implikasies daarvan. Die volgende kritiek word voorgestel. Navorsing oor die verhouding tussen religie en wetenskap is op ’n raamwerk van aannames gebaseer wat nie ’n behoorlike weerspieëling van die skriftuurlike standpunt is nie. Trinitariese navorsing verwag te veel van die veronderstelde ooreenkoms tussen die Drie-eenheid en die geskape werklikheid, terwyl dit neig om ander hulpbronne wat vir die Christelike wetenskap beskikbaar is, te verwaarloos. Wetenskaplike besinning oor God se ewigheid is spekulatief vir sover dit poog om die modale horison van kennis te transendeer. Dit word aangevoer dat ‘Kuyper se skalpel’ (’n benadering wat in die Kuyperiaans-reformatoriese tradisie bevorder word) sal help om navorsing in hierdie drie gevalle (ander gevalle word ook kortliks genoem) te heroorweeg.

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 Finding Faith between the Sciences: The Cases of ‘The Outer Worlds’ and ‘Mass Effect: Andromeda’

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-161
Author(s):  
Frank G. Bosman
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Digital Games ◽  
Mass Effect ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Contemporary Science ◽  
The Relationship

Science fiction, as a genre, has always been a place for religion, either as an inspirational source or as a part of the fictional universe. Religious themes in science fiction narratives, however, also invoke the question of the relationship, or the absence thereof, between religion and science. When the themes of religion and science are addressed in contemporary science fiction, they are regularly set in opposition, functioning in a larger discussion on the (in)comparability of religion and science in science fiction novels, games, and films. In the games The Outer Worlds and Mass Effect Andromeda, this discussion is raised positively. Involving terminology and notions related to deism, pantheism, and esoterism, both games claim that science and religion can co-exist with one another. Since digital games imbue the intra-textual readers (gamer) to take on the role as one of the characters of the game they are reading (avatar), the discussion shifts from a descriptive discourse to a normative one in which the player cannot but contribute to.

scholarly journals Theory of Alamin (A Formation of Universal Communication Formula)

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-180
Author(s):  
Muhammad Aminullah
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Universal Relationship ◽  
Universal Communication ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Theory Formula

Studies of this study need to be done to understand the basic nature of communication, so that the formation of a universal communication formula. The communication formula constructed in the theory of nature, explains that communication can be done in the form of a universal relationship ,not limited to the relationship between fellow human beings. It turns out that communication can be done in the form of relationships with all the elements that exist in the Universe of the universe is based on only one aspect of the relationship can be done on the need. Relationships that are built on necessities are an absolute right for humans to survive in their lives. The methodological approach in this research is the scientific approach that is built based on the discipline of ALAMTOLOGI. The communication formulas that are awakened in natural theory based on the discipline of ALAMTOLOGI communication and applied on all aspects of human relationships with others scientifically, systematically and universally in everyday life in a harmony way. The NAMORY THEORY formula is X + Z (Y) ⤇ g Hp and X - Z (0) ⤇ g Cp. Based on this concept the implementation of communication of this formula in the implementation of communication can ensure its attainment to the value of harmony or lameness value. Good communication is harmony communication. 

In Pursuit of Consonance: Science and Religion in Modern Works of tafsīr

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 7-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayman Shabana
Keyword(s):  
Modern Science ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Epistemic Authority ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Modern Knowledge ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Exegetical Tradition

One of the most important types of scholarly literature to highlight the contentious debate on the relationship between Islam and modern science has been modern commentary on the Qur'an (tafsīr). This paper examines how modern commentators have conceptualised the relationship between religion and science and how, in turn, this modern concern with science has led to the emergence of a new genre within tafsīr literature. The article explores the extent to which this new genre represents an extension to earlier forms of tafsīr and how authors of this genre relate their work to the extended exegetical tradition. Special attention is devoted to Tafsīr al-manār by Muḥammad ʿAbduh and Rashīd Riḍā and its impact on subsequent works of tafsīr, with a particular focus on Tafsīr al-jawāhir by Ṭanṭāwī Jawharī. The article aims to analyse the epistemic authority of science in these works and explore how this authority has been used for the construction of the divine text in light of modern knowledge and sensibilities.

scholarly journals A metabolism of Adam and Eve: Damien Hirst meets Edvard Munch

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-135
Author(s):  
Sari Kuuva
Keyword(s):  
Science And Religion ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Adam And Eve ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Edvard Munch

Evolution is a theme which crosses the boundaries of art, science and religion. In this paper the problematics of evolution are approached by analysing the works of Edvard Munch (1863–1944) and Damien Hirst (b. 1965). Key attention is paid to Munch’s workMetabolism (1898–9) and Hirst’s work Adam and Eve Exposed (2004), both of which relate to the thematics of the Fall and combine the perspectives of religion and science. The relationship between evolution and art is further discussed through a distinction between pictures and images and the concept of remediation.  

The Scopes Trial

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam R. Shaprio
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
New South ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Court Case ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Scopes Trial ◽  
The Bible ◽  
William Jennings Bryan ◽  
The Relationship

The 1925 Scopes trial was a widely followed court case in Dayton, Tennessee, that attracted the attention of the nation. A prosecution against a schoolteacher charged with violating Tennessee’s new law prohibiting the teaching of human evolution, the trial became a great public spectacle that saw debates over the meaning and truth of the Bible, and the relationship between science and religion. The trial is most famous for the involvement of the lawyers William Jennings Bryan (for the prosecution) and Clarence Darrow (for the defense). Despite being a legally insignificant case, the trial has remained important in American history because it is seen as symbolizing some of the country’s great social issues in the early 20th century: fundamentalist responses to modernity, the autonomy and clout of the “New South,” and the eternal clash between religion and science.

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