Can science ally with religion in favor of modern Subject?

  1. Lemma
  2. Μπορούν επιστήμη και θρησκεία να συμμαχήσουν υπέρ του σύγχρονου υποκειμένου;
  3. Greek, Modern (1453-)
  4. Delli, Eudoxie
  5. Co-existence - Orthodox Anthropology - Scientific theories and disciplines > Psychology-Psychoanalysis - Orthodox theological tradition and practice > Premodern _modern_ postmodern
  6. Τhermos, (Protopresbyter) Vasileios [Author]. Can science ally with religion in favor of modern Subject?
  7. Μπορούν επιστήμη και θρησκεία να συμμαχήσουν υπέρ του σύγχρονου υποκειμένου;
  8. postmodern Subject - conceptions of the Self - postmodern epistemology - postmodern religiosity
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    1. <p style="text-align: justify;">Thermos, (Protopresbyter) V.  [Θερμός, (Πρωτοπρεσβύτερος) Β.] (2013, Οctober 9). Μπορούν επιστήμη και θρησκεία να συμμαχήσουν υπέρ του σύγχρονου υποκειμένου; [Video file]. Retrieved from http:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=2riPJoOVzsI</p>
    1. Fr Vasileios Thermos treats the issue of the potential alliance between psychology and theology in post-modern societies. After a short introduction on the history of this relation in modern times, he focuses on the consequences of Post-modernity on the concept of Subject and the following reconstruction of post-modern religiosity as well as of epistemology.

      Then he examines what may entail the concept of postmodern self for the scientist as self, notably in the case of the psychotherapists. He underlines the risk of a neo-positivism inspired by the post-modern surrounding destruction of meaning and existential coherence. Especially Psychology, by serving and legalizing an alleged psychological ‘normality’, risks loosing its scientific identity and status, as well as its critical character.

      According to the speaker, only the Critical Psychology and religion could criticize the anthropological distortions provoked by the post-modern conception of self. Psychology and religion could cooperate in the quest for a synthetic view of Mankind, acting as guarantors of cohesion for the contemporary subject and as centers of resistance to the promulgated fragmentation of human self and of the meaning of life.

      According to Thermos, the alliance between psychology and religion could be feasible and fruitful by the mutual understanding, as well as the intellectual and personal integrity of both sides. Each of them has to acquire some elements of the traits of the other, to drawn from each other. Believers and theologians have to deal with the systematic exercise of thought and reasoning on the basis of the scientific standards, while scientists have to deepen further into the non discursive sides of human self (as intuition, sentiments, desires and existential preoccupations) and into the theological traditions which emphasize on the concept of Person related to the living religious experience. Furthermore, the theologian has to take always into account the historical dimension of his thought, while the scientist has to be aware of his limits in approaching the multilevel complexity of the Mankind.