Is science neutral and not dependent on philosophical assumptions?What kind of effort can Christians make to make it more consistent with the Christian faith?
The vision of grace and the dichotomy of nature (Thomas Aquinas), where grace (additional gift, revealed theology, faith) is separated from nature (functional nature, philosophy and natural theology?upper floor? (faith and spiritual life) on a lower floor?(reason and secular life); and so there was no longer a need for faith for daily life.
- Add to this a great scientific impulse from the search for freedom (ideal personality) through the modification of nature.
- However.
- This search for freedom through scientific naturalism (facts) has led to a loss of freedom.
- Due to nihilism.
- Irrationalism (meaningless).
Thus, because man needs a sense to live, he is led to a line of despair, because the naturalistic vision of the world does not explain the whole human existence, where man is led to take a leap towards faith.
Denatur secularism, demonstrating the inconsistency between secular humanism and scientific activity and showing the contingent and parasitic nature of secular humanism; and instead correct the image of nature, reconstruct the image of science and provide the real human context.
Pastors, how many times have you stimulated the scientific vocation of your church?, do you believe in a division between nature and grace ?, the reason why we do not have this is because our vision of nature is bad. Guilherme de Carvalho #CongressoVidaNova
Natural theology has its Christian systematization in the thought of Thomas Aquinas and argues that man can partially know God through reason.
Instead of proving God’s existence from nature, new natural theology should give a Christian meaning to nature and incorporate science into the Christian vocation.
Seek that no one will prey on you, with philosophies and vain subtleties, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ; because the fullness of the deity dwells there in person; (Colosssenses 2: 8-9)