RT Article
T1 The Relation Between Science and Theology: The Case for Complementarity Revisited
JF Zygon
VO 25
IS 4
SP 369
OP 390
A1 Reich, K. Helmut
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 1990
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1827949074
AB Abstract. Donald MacKay has suggested that the logical concept of complementarity is needed to relate scientific and theological thinking. According to Ian Barbour, this concept should only be used within, not between, disciplines. This article therefore attempts to clarify that contrast from the standpoint of cognitive process. Thinking in terms of complementarity is explicated within a structuralist-genetic, interactive-constructivist, developmental theory of the neo- and post-Piagetian kind, and its role in religious development is indicated. Adolescents'complementary views on Creation and on the corresponding scientific accounts serve as an illustration. After further analysis of parallel and circular complementarity, it is shown under which conditions complementarity of science and theology can be better justified and may be potentially more fruitful than is apparent from Barbour's or even MacKay's considerations.
K1 Worldviews
K1 Science and religion
K1 Donald MacKay
K1 Logic
K1 intellectual development
K1 Epistemology
K1 complementarity
K1 Cognition
K1 Ian Barbour
DO 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1990.tb01116.x