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SCIENCE AND RELIGION: SEEKING A COMMON HORIZON
Author(s) -
Budenholzer Frank E.
Publication year - 1984
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/j.1467-9744.1984.tb00935.x
Subject(s) - transcendental number , epistemology , horizon , position (finance) , philosophy , scientific theory , realism , mathematics , economics , geometry , finance
. The thought of Bernard Lonergan provides an epistemological position that is both true to the exigencies of modern science and yet open to the possibility of God and revealed religion. In this paper I outline Lonergan's “transcendental method,” which describes the basic pattern of operations involved in any act of human knowing, and discuss how Lonergan uses this cognitional theory as a basis for an epistemological position of critical realism. Then I explain how his approach handles some philosophical problems raised by classical and modern science and show how his thought provides an intelligible link between the scientific and religious horizons.