How Science Is a Resource and a Challenge for Religion: Perspective of a Theologian.
Religion is characterized by the attempt to create a worldview, which is in effect the effort of worldbuilding. By this I mean that religion aims to focus on all of the elements that make up a person’s world or a community’s world and put those elements together in a manner that actually constructs...
| Publicado en: | Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 55 - 63 |
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Open Library of Humanities
Mar2002
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