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

Fr Petre Comşa () and Costea Munteanu ()
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Fr Petre Comşa: Faculty of Theology, Valahia University, Târgoviște (Romania)
Costea Munteanu: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest (Romania); Romanian Institute for Free Enterprise, Bucharest

The Journal of Philosophical Economics, 2021, vol. 14, issue 1-2, 136-176

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: apodictic method; discontinuity relationship; antinomic logic; patristic teaching; economic science; [SHS.PHIL]Humanities and Social Sciences/Philosophy; [SHS.RELIG]Humanities and Social Sciences/Religions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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