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Abstract: This essay offers an overview of the history of the relations between science and Eastern Christianity based on Greek-language sources. The civilizations con-cerned are the Byzantine Empire, the Christian Orthodox communities of the Otto-man Empire, and modern Greece, as a case study of a national state.
The main goal of this volume is to define the patterns of the science-religion relationship in the Orthodox world, especially in the light of the most recent trends in both science and theology. Is this a relationship of dialogue or conflict? Of integration or independence?
Such a science, as opposed to scientism, Orthodoxy can work with and applaud; for true religion and true science work together to reveal the great edifice of truth. As the great Russian elder St. Nektary of Optina, who died in 1928, said: “God not only allows, He demands that a man grow in knowledge.
This essay offers an overview of the history of the relations between science and Eastern Christianity based on Greek-language sources. The civilizations concerned are the Byzantine Empire, the Christian Orthodox communities of the Ottoman Empire, and modern Greece, as a case study of a national sta …
Orthodox Christianity considers itself as the "right" belief and "right glory," whose Church guards and teaches the true belief about God and represents the Church of Christ on Earth.
1 wrz 2016 · This paper explores the perception of science by certain Greek Orthodox Christian circles as this is made manifest in three representative Greek Orthodox periodicals from 1980 to 2010.
1 wrz 2016 · This essay offers an overview of the history of the relations between science and Eastern Christianity based on Greek-language sources, and presents the constant background engagement with religion visible in most public pronouncements of scientists and intellectuals.
