On the possibility of a dialogue between science and religion based on Russian Orthodox tradition

1. Entity type Lemma
2. Original titleО возможности диалога между наукой и религией на основе русской православной традиции
3. Language term Russian
4. lemma author Saprykin, Dmitry
5. lemma category Various approaches to the problem of correlation between science and theology
6. Publication date 2014
7. lemma work Гриб Сергей [Author]. On the possibility of a dialogue between science and religion based on Russian Orthodox tradition
8. lemma manifestations Вера и знание: взгляд с Востока : Faith and knowledge: view from the East
9. Keywords Lossky, Vladimir - Евдокимов Павел
10. Citations
    1. http://esxatos.com/obolevich-vera-i-znanie-vzglyad-vostoka
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    1. Science and theology are gifts given to us from above, the author believes, and therefore the conflict between them directly testify some pathology either in theology (as happened in the Middle Ages in the West), or in science (as it was, for example, in the 20th century in the USSR and in Germany). Science evolved without any regard for the existence of the Creator and His main creation - a human being, which led to dehumanization of our ideas about the world and man in science.

       A productive dialogue between modern science and Christianity, the author believes, is possible in case of recognition of incomprehensible deep basis of being and of tremendous importance of the subject's activity together with the human and divine will synergy when "ingrowing" into the Truth. Cognition of the being in its wholeness, which illumines a man striving for real unity with it, by the gracious light given by God, is not achieved by science or abstract philosophy, but is realized on many life paths with the help of Christ.

       Orthodox theology tries to keep apophatic and antinomic. Western theology, for the most part, is cataphatic and rationalistic; therefore, it is closer to science, and they have something to argue about. Russian religious thought, relying on some original intuition or "living ideas," the author argues, turned out to be as if between science and theology, pretending to have a certain identity associated with the insight of this or that thinker.

       According to the author, Vladimir Lossky can serve as an example of a modern theologian who was well aware of the difference between theology based on the revelation of transcendent in immanent and science directly related to experiment and logic. Apparently, it is his theological creativity, as well as the work of another secular Russian theologian of the 20th century, Pavel Evdokimov, that may indicate the possibility of liberation of Russian religious thought from utopias and religious fantasies in transition to a sober perception of spiritual reality.