RT Article
T1 Science and Specificity: Interdisciplinary Teaching Between Theology, Religion, and the Natural Sciences
JF Zygon
VO 57
IS 1
SP 233
OP 243
A1 Davison, Andrew 1974-
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1799696960
AB Consideration of the work of natural scientists by theologians extends the innate interdisciplinarity of theological study. Here, I focus on interdisciplinarity as it bears upon undergraduate and postgraduate education and supervision. Much research in theology and science today asks how some more specific area of science bears upon some specific aspect of theology, in contrast to earlier attention to methodology, and how theology-as-such might relate to science-as-such. This paradigm, described as “Science-Engaged Theology,” is showing itself in teaching, with both benefits (capturing the imagination of students) and challenges (the work of learning about the details of scientific research). Criticisms raised about Science-Engaged Theology in research also suggest goals for education. These include encouraging students to ask whether science does bear upon their theological topic, after all, and the suggestion that a move beyond methodology should not leave the theologian uncritical of the theological freight associated with the assumptions and paradigms that shape natural science, either explicitly or implicitly.
K1 theology and natural science
K1 Theological Education
K1 science-engaged theology
K1 Science and religion
K1 Interdisciplinarity
DO 10.1111/zygo.12784