THE RATIONALISATION OF FAITH AND THE EMPTYING OF THE CATEGORY GOD: THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL FIELD OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELIGION AND SCIENCE AND THE EXISTENCE OF GOD UNDERLYING THIS DIALOGUE

Abstract

The article reflects, as a starting point, the scientific return of some ideas from the past, which in general cause perplexity to scientists and ordinarily provoke religious concerns, especially among adherents of Christianity. The text conjectures this situation as a result of the inadequate polarization between faith and science, relocating and justifying the relationship as a specific clash between two rationalities: theological and scientific rationality and not between subjective experience (faith) and objective rationality (science). In the pursuit of this itinerary, the text resumes, in the light of literature, an analysis critically constructed about the categories underlying the discussion, namely: God, religion, faith and science, in a fabric that will lead to an implicit criticism when doing theological in the course of time and the need to rethink theology today, if not in its entirety, at least in the field of study presented in this text.

Keywords: Scientific rationality. Theological rationality. Religion. Science. Faith.