Context:
Relationship between theology and science typology
In the introduction to
The Sciences and Theology in the Twentieth Century,
[1] Peacocke lists a set of eight relationships that could fall upon a two-dimensional grid. This list is in part a survey of deliberations that occurred at the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Council_of_Churches Conference on "Faith, Science and the Future", Cambridge, Mass., 1979.
- Science and theology are concerned with two distinct realms
- Reality is thought of as a duality, operating within the human world, in terms of natural/supernatural, spatio-temporal/the eternal, the order of nature/the realm of faith, the natural(or physical)/the historical, the physical-and-biological/mind-and-spirit.
- Science and theology are interacting approaches to the same reality
- Accuracy of this view is widely and strongly resisted among those who otherwise differ in their theologies
- Science and theology are two distinct non-interacting approaches to the same reality
- The idea that theology tries to answer the question why, while science tries to answer the question how