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What Game Is Being Played? The Need for Clarity about the Relationships Between Scientific and Theological Understanding
Author(s) -
Pailin David A.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/0591-2385.00265
Subject(s) - clarity , faith , naturalism , meaning (existential) , natural theology , praxis , epistemology , value (mathematics) , natural (archaeology) , feeling , theology , philosophy , sociology , biochemistry , chemistry , archaeology , machine learning , computer science , history
This paper investigates the relationship between theology and the natural sciences by considering four realist and five nonrealist interpretations of theological understanding. These are that theology expresses biblical affirmations, the faith of the community, revelatory declarations, or a prioriconclusions, and that it is reducible to expressions of feelings, attitudes, naturalism, liberating praxis, or moral convictions. Because these views are unsatisfactory, the author calls for an imaginative form of natural theology that shows how faith's understanding of the purpose, value, and meaning of reality fits how the world is actually found to be.