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Universe as Communion

Towards a Neo-Patristic Synthesis of Theology and Science

Universe as Communion

Towards a Neo-Patristic Synthesis of Theology and Science

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780567304421
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 03/11/2011
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
In this book a new and distinctive approach to the science-religion debate emerges from a synthesis of the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition with phenomenological thought. Developing ideas of Greek Patristics the author treats faith, with its sense of the Divine presence, and knowledge 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 not simply an academic exercise; it requires an existential change, a change of mind (metanoia), which cannot 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 phenomenological 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.
Introduction: The Delimiters of the Dialogue Between Theology and Science; Chapter 1: A Neo-Patristic Ethos in the Dialogue between Theology and Science; Chapter 2: Neo-Patristic Synthesis and Existential Phenomenology: The Lines of Convergence; Chapter 3: Theology and Phenomenological Attitude: the Human Condition, Existential Faith and Transcendence; Chapter 4: The Dialogue between Theology and Science: Human- Centered as opposed to Nature-Centred; Chapter 5: The Universe as Communion: from Cosmology to Personhood and Teleology of Reason; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Rev'd Dr Alexei Nesteruk

Dr 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.

Mention -Book News, February 2009 'A valuable and interesting contribution of Alexei Nesteruk to the hotly debated topic of possibilities and ways of dialogue between Science and Religion." - European Journal of Science and Theology "...examplary book for graduate students with interests in Orthodoxy and the theology and science dialogue..." Bradford McCall, Theological Book Review, Vol 21 No 1, 2009 B. McCall Theological Book Review