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The changes that occurred as a result of reforms in the organization of education in Poland in recent years were revolutionary: exams at the end of secondary and primary schools, changes in the age and the length of compulsory education, decentralization of educational authorities. Another important change, which will appear in high schools this school year are two subjects: Natural science and History and society. These changes will have a negative influence on the education of science subjects, especially geography. The authors of the article analysed the learning of Natural science on different stages of education, focusing on Natural science in high schools. They described how students choose the course and its time dimension. At the same time they noticed, that despite the attractiveness of Natural science curriculum in high school, it will not replace the content of unrealized geography, biology, chemistry and physics contents, so that student’s level of general education will be significantly reduced. According to the results of the authors’ analysis of geographic content in the curriculum of Natural science in high school, it turned out that they constitute only 16.4% of the content of Natural science (like physics and chemistry), which is dominated by biology content – 35.1%. The record of the geographical content is also disappointing. Compared to other subjects, geographic contents are the least scientifically substantiated and do not include any geographical research methods. As demonstrated by the analysis, reduced position of geography in education is unacceptable for most geographers, also for the authors.
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This paper introduces and reflects upon methodological merits of the author’s long-standing work on a book dedicated to the topic of Czech Catholic theology’s reaction from 1850 to 1950 to the challenges posed by natural science in the world-wide and interdisciplinary context. It is demonstrated that there is no tension on the axis theology vs. natural science, but on the axis theistic vs. atheistic world-view. The author rejects ideologisation of theology and natural science. In theology, this topic is in the competence of fundamental theology, where a new discipline of “theology of natural science” should be established. Therefore, it should be integrated into dogmatic theology as well, esp. to the treatise on God the Creator and on the qualities of the Triune Creature.
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The article deals with the issue of the so­called physico­‑theology of the Early Modern age and its relationship to contemporary natural science. It serves as a background for one of the representatives of Christian natural science, Gerardus Mercator (1512–1594). An outline of the concepts, characteristics and period of physico­theological thought is followed by an analysis of Mercator’s main work, Atlas, sive cosmographicae meditationes, against marked features of the physico­theological method. Although known to the world as a geographer and cartographer whose inductive methodical approach ranks him among protagonists of natural science, in particular modern geography, Mercator himself places the focal point of his activities in cosmographic texts. They are clearly marked by a teleological way of thinking. All of Mercator’s (specialist) cognitive endeavours are doxologically aimed at a praise of God’s omnipotence, wisdom and goodness.
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The article deals with the interpretation of nature in the writings of two early modern Lutheran theological thinkers, Johann Arndt and Samuel Fabricius, and this against the background of the significance of these theological concepts for an (empirical) understanding of nature, at the time an issue of ever increasing importance. The authors’ approach and reasoning are analysed in the context of the then status of nature, showing in what way and to what extent the theologians’ ideas related to the distinct trend of natural scientists to study nature not (primarily) as creation. The concluding synthesis argues for a principal difference between teleological and causal reasoning of that time, which requires a different type of cognition. This study, however, dismisses polarising thinking. What the article points out as positive is the heuristic function of these concepts on the way to scientific knowledge.
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