Truth and Relevation

1. Entity type Lemma
2. Original titleΑλήθεια και Αποκάλυψη
3. lemma author Katsiampoura, Gianna
4. lemma category Various approaches to the problem of correlation between science and theology
5. Publication date 08-06-2017
6. lemma work Stathakis, Vasileios K. [Author]. Truth and Relevation
7. lemma manifestations Aktines (Ακτίνες)
8. Keywords science-religion relationship - Philosophy - Natural sciences
9. Url Click Here
10. Citations
    1. Stathakis, Vasileios K. (2011), "Αλήθεια και Αποκάλυψη" ("Truth and Relevation"), Aktines 723, 195-196
11. Lemma body

    1. The first assumption of this paper is that man, by his nature, seeks the ultimate truth, using two sources: the human rational thinking and the Divine revelation. The human thinking uses, for this research, philosophy, especially metaphysics and gnosiology.

       However, here someone could see a relevant problem: the subjectivity of the answers, which are based on philosophy, led to indifference to metaphysics. The new empiricism and the epistemological modernism stopped the metaphysics and now the interest focuses only on empirical world.

       So, now, as Vasileios Stathakis, the writer of this paper, says, both philosophy and religion have to look for the ultimate truth. According to St Augustine of Hippo, faith must lead to the knowledge that derives from the divine Revelation, as recorded at the Bible. After the mechanization of 19th century, all the modern theories on physics, as quantum mechanics, theory of relativity or Chaos theory, open the way for faith in God. According to this argument, modern science convinces man that the faith is a logical and moral request.