HOW MUCH SHOULD OR CAN SCIENCE IMPACT THEOLOGICAL FORMULATIONS? AN ASH'ARI PERSPECTIVE ON THEOLOGY OF NATURE

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dc.contributor.authorMalik, Shoaib Ahmed
dc.contributor.authorMuhtaroglu, Nazif
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-19T14:46:36Z
dc.date.available2024-05-19T14:46:36Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.departmentİstinye Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractThere have been many developments in the field of science and religion over the past few decades. One such development is referred to as 'theology of nature' (ToN), which is the activity of building or revising theological frameworks in light of contemporary scientific developments, e.g., evolution, chaos theory, and quantum mechanics. Ian Barbour, John Polkinghorne, and Arthur Peacocke, all of whom are Christian thinkers, are the most well-known advocates of this kind of thinking. However, this discourse has not been examined from an Islamic perspective. Given this gap, in this article, we view this strand of thinking from the Ash'ari school of thought that is part of the Sunni Islamic kalam tradition. We first review how ToN manifests in the works of the thinkers mentioned earlier. Following this, we highlight the essential principles in Ash'arism relevant to God, His interaction with the created world, and science. These are then compared with the ideas of the said thinkers. Two conclusions are reached. First, we demonstrate that atomism, which is generally understood as a long-held position in the Ash`ari tradition, should not be held as a theological position but rather a philosophical or a scientific one. Second, an important distinction is made between science-informed theology (SIT) and contingency-informed theology (CIT). For Ash'aris, a CIT is sufficient for understanding God, but they would find the SIT displayed in ToN problematic. The motivation and methodology of localising or modifying God's nature or attributes to fit the science of the day would be seen as theologically very costly and a form of scientism.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.31820/ejap.18.2.9
dc.identifier.endpage42en_US
dc.identifier.issn1845-8475
dc.identifier.issn1849-0514
dc.identifier.issue2en_US
dc.identifier.startpage42en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org10.31820/ejap.18.2.9
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12713/5557
dc.identifier.volume18en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001150206100006en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/Aen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniv Rijeka, Fac Humanities Social Sciencesen_US
dc.relation.ispartofEuropean Journal of Analytic Philosophyen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.snmz20240519_kaen_US
dc.subjectScience And Religionen_US
dc.subjectTheology Of Natureen_US
dc.subjectNatural Theologyen_US
dc.subjectDivine Action Projecten_US
dc.subjectAsh'arismen_US
dc.subjectOccasionalismen_US
dc.subjectContingencyen_US
dc.titleHOW MUCH SHOULD OR CAN SCIENCE IMPACT THEOLOGICAL FORMULATIONS? AN ASH'ARI PERSPECTIVE ON THEOLOGY OF NATUREen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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