On Knowledge and Faith

1. Entity type Lemma
2. Original titleO znanju i veri
3. Language term Serbian
4. Alternative title Mirroring in Context (en)
5. lemma author Stevanovic, Aleksandra
6. lemma category Concepts of knowledge and modes of reasoning > Sources of knowledge (empiricism/rationalism) - Modes of interaction
7. Publication date 10-11-2018
8. lemma work Šijaković, Bogoljub [Author]. Mirroring in Context: On knowledge and faith, legends and identity, church and the state
9. lemma manifestations Mirroring in Context : On Knowledge and Faith, Tradition and Identity, Church and State. - Belgrade: Sluzbeni glasnik, 2011.
10. Keywords
    1. Bigovic, Radovan
11. Keywords interaction
12. Lemma body

    1. On a general note, the book explores the relationship between science and religion, philosophy and theology, patristic paragons, and relation of the church and the state. It represents a collection of public lectures, conversations, reports and essays that the author has prepared over the years.

       The author explores the permeation of science and religion and initially states that the contemporary world is determined by the pressure to abandon truth and value orienteers and traces the relation of knowledge and faith since the ancient times. He further implies that the question of the relationship between science and religion underwent several phases and was ambivalent through history: from closeness to distance and antagonism.

       The author explored science and religion in philosophical and existential terms. Faith transcends the boundaries of knowledge, opens a different sort of knowledge and comprehension of reality – existential knowledge, different from the knowledge of the facts, objective or scientific knowledge. A religious philosopher is the one that explores, but never questions or doubts. In Orthodox philosophy this stems from the truth of faith.

       The author further explores the relation between science and religion in the contemporary world. He poses a question whether contemporary science is interested in the man’s condition. The absolute authority of science produces the image that science has the monopoly over reality: it is the only eligible to define and describe it. Here, the author points at the side effects of this control. Thus, the author concludes, life becomes deprived of essence. Therefore, the productive encounter of science and religion should be fostered.