theology

Theology in Contemporary Russian Academia

What Is the Scientific Status of Theology as a Discipline? Round-Table in the Editorial Office of the Journal

“Theology is a discipline that studies Church as a certain factual reality…”

Konstantin Antonov, Chair and Professor of the leading Orthodox university in Russia, answers the questions about the status of theology as an academic discipline. In particular, he discusses issues of the subject of theology, relations between theology and the study of religion, the nature of free theological investigation and the place of confessional loyalty in academic life. In the end, the question is raised about the possibility of installing confessional disciplines in non-confessional institutes of higher education.

“In contrast to theology, the scientific axioms are only local and ‘technical’…”

Eucharist, Councils and Primacy

My task in this essay is simple: to critically examine the relation between councils and episcopal primacy in light of eucharistic ecclesiology.

Via Premoderna: Metaphysical-Political Project of John Milbank

The Dialogue of Religion and Science: New Approaches (An Overview of Discussions)

The paper is authored by the heads of the research project «The Development of a New Methodology for Dialogue and Cooperation between Science and Religion in Russia» (supported by John Templeton Foundation). The paper gives an overview of research results. The traditional dialogue (within Christian cultural tradition), which was largely epistemological, should be made wider and deeper thanks to new approaches — in particular looking comparatively at the very ethos of the scientific and religious communities.

Ethos of Religion and Forms of Rationality

The article examines the relationship between religion and science (or rational activities as a whole) as two irreducible basic aspects of human existence and two subsystems of culture, constituted by different systems of values and norms. Theories postulating their harmonious coexistence are failures, and we need to understand the profound causes of conflicts. These causes are not in the sphere of particular or general cognitive disagreements, but in fundamental difference of spiritual settings, that stand behind both religion and science.

"Christianity will only recover if it seeks to rethink everything in a newly Christian way…"

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