RT Article
T1 The World as a Gift: Scientific Change and Intelligibility for a Theology of Science
JF Religions
VO 14
IS 5
A1 Marcacci, Flavia 1976-
A1 Oleksowicz, Michał
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1843472511
AB “Truth” and “cause” are essential issues in theology. Truths of faith are meant to remain solid and fundamental and can be traced back to the unique truth of God. The same God is conceived of as the Creator who brought everything into existence before every other cause. Recent discussions about scientific rationality and causality have engaged with the same ideas of “truth” and “cause”, even though they have done so according to different methodologies and from different points of view. Can those discussions stimulate theology, and if so, in what manner? In this paper, we begin by considering the subject of scientific change and rationality, arguing that scientific change leads to the recognition of the connection between any scientific theory and what remains intelligible in nature. Next, we show some of the outcomes from new mechanistic philosophy, focusing on the idea of cause, which unveils a strong correspondence between epistemology and ontology and provides a unique way of speaking about causality. Finally, we conclude that science can support theology through new approaches to nature and that a theology of science is required today as an intertwined perspective between science and theology. The main virtue that guides this approach is humility.
K1 theology of science
K1 Epistemology
K1 intelligibility
K1 Transdisciplinarity
K1 scientific change
K1 Science
DO 10.3390/rel14050572