A religion for an age of science

Author:Gillette, PR

Article Title:A religion for an age of science

Abstract:
The period 800-200 B.C.E, has been called an axial period or age because it was a period of major technological and cultural change that led development of new worldviews, which in turn called for and led to the emergence of the current major world religious traditions. The world is now in the midst of another period of major global scientific, technological, and Cultural change that is leading to the development of a new, global worldview. In this worldview, e cosmos is taken to be more like ail activity than a thing-more like an emergent complex of interrelated and :Interactive doing in space-time than a created complex of beings in space and time-and its complexity and space-time scale are understood to be enormously greater than heretofore supposed. These changes in,worldview call for changes in theology, religion, and ethics. Most workers in the field of science and religion are heeding this call by attempting to reconcile traditional religious concepts with the new scientific concepts. Others, however, have become convinced that the new worldview differs so radically from the previous ones as to mark a new axial age, which calls for a new, post-traditional theology, religion, and ethics, with a theos(1) that is more like an activator of doing than a ground of being, and with meaning and purpose achieved more by a quality of doing than a quantity or quality of being.

Keywords: age of science; axial age; axial period; cosmic theology; global ecosystem; post-traditional theology; process theology; theos

DOI: 10.1111/0591-2385.00443

Source:ZYGON

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