Orthodoxy and Science

In: Dialogo: proceedings of the conferences on the dialogue between science and theology, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 141-148

Abstract

The relationship between "orthodoxy" and "science" has recently become a research topic. The orthodox area has never remarked through scientific concerns. The recent concern is generated by intense discussions that are taking place in the West on this issue; therefore Orthodox concerns in this direction do not seem to have been generated from internal reasons, it is a form of imitation, of forced adaptation to modernity, a modernity that we are forced to adapt to by the European world in which we came and where we want to integrate deeper. This does not mean that the Orthodox concern for the relationship between religion and science would necessarily be alien to the essence of "orthodoxy". It just means that the concern for this issue is recent and has not arisen as a consequence of internal historical development of orthodoxy, as it is the case in the West, where modernity is a process deeply rooted in the history of ideas itself of this part of the world.