Evolutionary theology: a new chapter in the relations between theology and science

• Authors: Wojciech P. Grygiel

Abstracts

EN

Despite many arduous attempts to reconcile the separation between theology and science, the common ground where these two areas of intellectual inquiry could converge has not been fully identified yet. The purpose of this paper is to use evolutionary theology as the new and unique framework in which science and theology are indeed brought into coherent alignment. The major step in this effort is to acknowledge that theology can no longer dialogue with science but must assume science and its method as its conceptual foundation. This approach successfully does away with any tensions that may arise between the two disciplines and establishes a firm ground on which neither of them will turn into ideology. Moreover, it enables the dialogue with contemporary scientific atheism on solid grounds and the restoration of the credibility of theology in the secularist culture of the day.

Keywords

EN

evolution; hermeneutics; rationality; picture of the world; relations between science and theology

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
• Journal: Studia Philosophiae Christianae
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 56
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 101-123

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Wojciech P. Grygiel

• Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie
• Centrum Kopernika Badań Interdyscyplinarnych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

• https://orcid.org/0000000325990410

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Identifiers

DOI

10.21697/spch.2020.56.3.05

Biblioteka Nauki

1927002