Sensory Perception, History and Geology

William Molyneux's question to John Locke about whether a blind man restored to sight could name the difference between a cube and a sphere without touching them shaped fundamental conflicts in philosophy, theology and science between empirical and idealist answers that are radically alien to current ways of seeing and feeling but were born of colonizing ambitions whose devastating genocidal and ecocidal consequences intensify today. This Element demonstrates how landscape paintings of unfamiliar terrains required historical and geological subject matter to supply tactile associations for empirical recognition of space, whereas idealism conferred unmediated but no less coercive sensory access. Close visual and verbal analysis using photographs of pictorial sites trace vividly different responses to the question, from those of William Hazlitt and John Ruskin in Britain to those of nineteenth-century authors and artists in the United States and Australia, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Cole, William Haseltine, Fitz Henry Lane and Eugene von Guérard.

A brief epistemological discussion of astrotheology in the light of astrobiology

Astrotheology is presented as a discipline of study that manages to complement theology and science. It considers that each one has its own role and that as long as there is no reductionism that wants to monopolize the place of the other, fluid communication between both is possible. Therefore, it is worth examining epistemologically astrotheology in the light of astrobiology. To achieve this, we will highlight the aspect of experience in order to relate it to transdisciplinarity.

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

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.

THE REVIEW OF SOCIAL THEOLOGY AND SCIENCE ON THE BENEFITS OF VACCINE IN THE COVID-19 PREVENTIVE MEASURES

The negative public perception of the vaccination is one of the most important concerns that occur while dealing with Covid-19. This viewpoint is based on the belief that vaccinations include ingredients that are prohibited by religion making their usage not halal. This study investigates the benefits of vaccinations in the Covid-19 preventive measures from a theological and scientific standpoint. This study employs qualitative research methods. Primary and secondary data were gathered from a variety of sources, including literature, information media, and statistics data. This study discovered several findings applying the maqashid al-syari'ah theory as an analytical tool: First, vaccines are medical instruments that aim to strengthen the immune system so that it can increase immunity and reduce the risk of Covid-19 transmission; Second, from the standpoint of social theology, the role of vaccines in protecting and preventing the body from transmitting Covid-19 is relevant to the dimensions of benefit found in maqashid al-syari'ah, which states that the purpose or objective of enforcing religious law must be oriented toward five things, one of which is the protection of the soul or self (hifzu al-Nafs); Third, the religious perspective plays a role in elucidating the reasons for the halal status of the Covid-19 vaccine from the standpoint of its value in social theology. In terms of science's viewpoint, it serves as a tool in articulating how the notion of self-preservation (hifzu al-Nafs) should be implemented through medical goods such as a vaccine. Vaccines are scientific attempts to contextualize the concept of religion so that it can be applied as a method to fight and prevent the spread of Covid-19

The apodictic method and the dialogue between theology and science (I)

Many today’s scientists think that religion can never come to terms with science. In sharp contrast to the widespread opinion, the authors of this paper consider that historically scientific reasoning and religious belief joined hands in their effort to investigate and understand reality. In fact, the current divorce between science and religion is nothing else than the final outcome of a gradual long-term, and deliberately assumed process of science secularization of science. However, especially during the last decades, we have all been equally confronted with the advance of a new concern over the fact that contemporary scientists have been approaching an area of investigation that had been usually addressed by the theological thought. This recent development has generated an emerging new field of investigation of Science and Religion within modern scientific epistemology.Against this background, the purpose of this paper is three-fold: firstly, to briefly emphasize that one of the defining dimensions of the dialogue between science and religion is given by the discontinuity, in which, the knowledge acquired through scientific reasoning is placed in relation to the divinely revealed knowledge; secondly, to argue that another defining dimension of the dialogue consists in the hierarchical harmony mediating the encounter between the two, thus transgressing the discontinuity and making the dialogue between theology and science possible and viable; and thirdly, to advocate the idea that the apodictic method (based on antinomic logic) can successfully structure such a dialogue.

Kristen dan Teknologi: Etika, Literasi dan Ciptaan

With ethical awareness, literacy abilities, and awareness as God's intelligent creatures, Christians in various dynamics of life must continue to show a human ethics and spirituality, especially in the context of Christian ethics and spirituality. The Christians are able to use the results of the development of science and technology in digital systems. Although, learning, supervision and self-control as God's people are things that are constantly attached to it. With the advance and increasing number of scientific and technological discoveries in various forms, Christians are challenged to publicize themselves and their discipleship calls in the context of digital technology with various media. Christianity and technology become important topics of study that can be included in the umbrella of the great scientific knowledge of theology and science which have been under-attention in certain denominations. Christianity and technology as an academic discourse in lecture classes will be very applicable in the broad life of students and the Christian community in the future, especially by including the ethics, literacy, and creation as sub-topics in it. This discussion has become very important in the age of technology so that understanding and behavior of how Christians should place themselves in the midst of new challenges in the real new age is now being managed with adulthood. ==== Dengan kesadaran beretika, kemampuan literasi, dan kesadaran sebagai makhluk ciptaan Tuhan yang cerdas maka umat Kristiani dalam berbagai dinamika hidup mesti tetap memperlihatkan sebuah etika dan spiritualitas manusia, terutama dalam konteks etika dan spiritualitas Kristiani. Umat Kristen terbilang mampu menggunakan hasil perkembangan sains dan teknologi dalam sistem digital. Meskipun pembelajaran, pengawasan dan penguasaan diri sebagai umat Tuhan merupakan hal-hal yang terus-menerus melekat di dalamnya. Majunya dan semakin banyaknya temuan sains dan teknologi dalam berbagai bentuk, membuat umat Kristiani ditantang untuk mempublikasikan diri dan panggilan pemuridannya dalam konteks berteknologi digital dengan berbagai media. Kristen dan teknologi penting menjadi satu pokok bahasan kajian yang bisa dimasukkan ke dalam payung keilmuan besar teologi dan sains yang selama kurang diperhatikan dalam denominasi tertentu. Kristen dan teknologi sebagai satu diskursus akademik di dalam kelas-kelas perkuliahan akan menjadi sangat aplikatif dalam kehidupan luas mahasiswa dan masyarakat Kristiani di kemudian hari apalagi dengan menyertakan sisi etika, literasi, dan ciptaan sebagai sub-sub bahasan di dalamnya. Pembahasan ini menjadi amat penting di zaman teknologi agar pemahaman dan perilaku bagaimana seharusnya umat Kristiani menempatkan dirinya di tengah-tengah tantangan baru di zaman baru yang nyata sekarang ini menjadi terkelola dengan dewasa.

Filsafat dan Sejarah Perkembangan Ilmu

Philosophy is a science that is extensive, meaning that it is closely related to our daily lives. In fact, it can be said that philosophy is the driving force of our daily lives as individuals and as collective human beings in the form of a society or nation. Bertrand Russell explained that “between theology and science lies in a no man's land. This area is under attack by both theology and science. This no man's land is called "philosophy". Philosophy is said to be the "matter scientiarum" which is the mother of all sciences. Everyone who wants to learn the meaning of life must know the science of philosophy. Dr. Surajiyo in his book "An Introduction to Philosophy" stated that "philosophizing is nothing but living thinking and thinking deeply about life (living thought and thoughtful living). Philosophy of science is not just a methodology or procedure for writing scientific papers. Philosophy of science is a philosophical reflection of the nature of science that will not recognize a stopping point in reaching the target to be achieved, namely truth and reality. Understanding the philosophy of science means understanding the intricacies of science so that the most basic aspects and joints, to understand the perspective of science, the possibility of its development, and the interrelationships between branches of science with one another It can be concluded that philosophy is a science that studies seriously the nature of the truth of all things. Science is a method of thinking objectively in describing and giving meaning to the real world and has principles to organize and systematize. The indicators of science are: Accumulative, the truth is not absolute, objective. There are six phases of scientific development, including; Pre-Ancient Greece Phase, Ancient Greek Phase, Medieval Age Phase, Renaissance Age phase, Modern era phase, and the last Contemporary Age phase