Science and Specificity: Interdisciplinary Teaching Between Theology, Religion, and the Natural Sciences
Consideration of the work of natural scientists by theologians extends the innate interdisciplinarity of theological study. Here, I focus on interdisciplinarity as it bears upon undergraduate and postgraduate education and supervision. Much research in theology and science today asks how some more s...
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| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2022
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Zygon
Year: 2022, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 233-243 |
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Theological Education
B science-engaged theology B Science and religion B Interdisciplinarity B theology and natural science |
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| Summary: | Consideration of the work of natural scientists by theologians extends the innate interdisciplinarity of theological study. Here, I focus on interdisciplinarity as it bears upon undergraduate and postgraduate education and supervision. Much research in theology and science today asks how some more specific area of science bears upon some specific aspect of theology, in contrast to earlier attention to methodology, and how theology-as-such might relate to science-as-such. This paradigm, described as “Science-Engaged Theology,” is showing itself in teaching, with both benefits (capturing the imagination of students) and challenges (the work of learning about the details of scientific research). Criticisms raised about Science-Engaged Theology in research also suggest goals for education. These include encouraging students to ask whether science does bear upon their theological topic, after all, and the suggestion that a move beyond methodology should not leave the theologian uncritical of the theological freight associated with the assumptions and paradigms that shape natural science, either explicitly or implicitly. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
| Reference: | Kommentar in "Response: Science and Religion—the State of the Art (2022)"
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12784 |