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In this book a new and distinctive approach to the science-religion debate emerges from a synthesis of the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition with phemelogical thought. Developing ideas of Greek Patristics the author treats faith, with its sense of the Divine presence, and kwledge of the universe, as two modes of communion which constitute the human condition. The modern opposition between science and theology (which is historically paralleled with the Church's split between East and West, and monasticism and Christianity in the world), is treated as the split between two intentionalities of the overall human subjectivity. The human person, as a centre of their reconciliation, becomes the major theme of the dialogue between science and theology. It is argued that the reconciliation of science and theology is t simply an academic exercise; it requires an existential change, a change of mind (metaia), which cant be effected without ecclesial involvement. Then the person who effectuates the mediation between science and theology is raised to the level of cosmic priesthood while the mediation acquires the features of a cosmic Eucharist in which all divisions and tensions in creation and humanity are removed. It is through this existential change accompanied by phemelogical analysis that scientific theories can be subjected to a certain vision through which the hidden ultimate goal (telos) of scientific research (as the explication of the human condition) shows its kinship to the saving telos advocated by Christian faith. The opposition between theology and science is thus being para-eucharistically overcome.

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PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC

ISBN-100567304426

ISBN-139780567304421

eBay Product ID (ePID)111506916

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Weight424g

Height234mm

Width156mm

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Place of PublicationEdinburgh

Spine15mm

Content NoteBlack & White Illustrations

Author BiographyDr Alexei Nesteruk is Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Portsmouth, UK, and a Deacon in the Russian-Orthodox Church. He is author of Light from the East: Theology, Science and the Eastern Orthodox Tradition, Fortress 2003.

FormatPaperback

LanguageEnglish

Author(s)Alexei Nesteruk

Date of Publication03/11/2011

Format DetailsTrade Paperback (Us)

SubjectChristian Theology

ImprintT.& T.Clark Ltd

Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom

GenreChristian Theology