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GUSTAFSON'S THEOCENTRISM AND SCIENTIFIC NATURALISTIC PHILOSOPHY: A MARRIAGE MADE IN HEAVEN?
Author(s) -
Rottschaefer William A.
Publication year - 1995
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.1467-9744.1995.tb00065.x
Subject(s) - naturalism , heaven , perspective (graphical) , interactionism , normative , epistemology , empiricism , materialism , sociology , philosophy , psychology , theology , mathematics , geometry
. Examining James M. Gustafson's views on the relationships between the sciences, theology, and ethics from a scientifically based naturalistic philosophical perspective, I concur with his rejection of separatist and antagonistic interactionist positions and his adherence to a mutually supportive interactionist position with both descriptive and normative features. I next explore three aspects of this interactionism: religious empiricism, the connections between facts and values, and the centering of objective values in the divine. Here I find much accord between Gustafson's theocentrism and a scientifically based naturalistic philosophical account of the relationships between the sciences, theology, and ethics.