Vatican II on Science and Technology





• Vatican II on Science and Technology

  Author	Job Kozhamthadam
  Rights	© 2015 Aletheia - Associação Científica e Cultural | © 2015 Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia
  Volume	63
  Issue	1-3
  Pages	609-629
  Publication	Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia
  ISSN	0870-5283; 2183-461X
  Date	2007
  DOI	10.17990/RPF/2007_63_1_0609
  Language	English
  Abstract	Abstract: The present article provides an analysis of the way in which the Council Vatican ii (1962-1965) understood and related to the human realms of Science and Technology. As one of the greatest events in the life of the Church in contemporary times, the Council Vatican ii sought to meet the necessities of contemporary society, particularly its pastoral needs. By recognizing the importance played by the mathematical and the natural sciences in the formation of the contemporary human being, the Council was led to produce some very important statements about Science and Technology. Thus, the article gives us a glimpse of the overall spirit that animated the Council and of the extent to which some of its special features played a major role in determining the attitude it took towards modern developments such as those related to the field of Science and Technology. Moreover, it also shows how Vatican ii came to understand Science and Technology not as “devices of the devil”, but rather as a real boon to humanity, recognizing in particular that they are ordained by divine dispensation. Finally, the article also elucidates how for the Council Religion and Science must preserve their autonomy and their distinctiveness, so that neither is Religion to be founded on Science nor is Science to be seen as an extension of Religion. Rather, each one of them should possess its own principles, its pattern of procedures, its diversities of interpretation and its own conclusions. Key Words: Aggiornamento; Church and Science; Church and Technology; Coyne, George; Galileo affair; Pope John Paul ii; Pope John xxiii; Science; Scientific education; Technology; Truth; Vatican ii.
  Date Added	14/07/2015, 15:36:19
  Modified	20/07/2015, 10:39:49

  Tags:

  • Catholicism
  • Science and Religion;
  • Technology;
  • Vatican II