Interdisciplinary Documentation on Religion and Science

- Contains more than 80 anthological texts from classical and contemporary authors
- Contains approximately 60 articles of the Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Religion and Science
-Contains various teachings of Pope John Paul II on Christian Revelation, culture, and scientific thought
- Approximately 200,000 pages are viewed monthly on this site

“You have had the good fortune to find real teachers, authentic friends, who have taught you everything you wanted to know without holding back. You have had no need to employ any tricks to steal their knowledge, because they led you along the easiest path, even though it had cost them a lot of hard work and suffering to discover it. Now, it is your turn to do the same, with one person, and another — with everyone.”
(J. Escrivá, Furrow, n. 733)

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	Science and Theology, Parallelisms, by John Polkinghorne

The Interdisciplinary Documentation on Religion and Science website seeks to help scientists frame their work within a philosophical and humanistic context. It also seeks to aid people trained in theology to approach, through the humanistic reflections of scientists, the rationale of scientific activity. The website presents an ample anthology of selected documents and also offers, in a separate section, the Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Religion and Science, a dynamic, online-only database. The Interdisciplinary Documentation on Religion and Science website is a nonprofit project associated with the Chair of Fundamental Theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, Italy.

Pius XII, The Laws that Govern the World, Address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, February 21, 1943

Pius XII, The Structure of the Matter of the Created World as a Manifestation of the Wisdom and Goodness of God, Address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, April 24, 1955

In order to make certain documents better known in the scientific community, the Anthology and Documents section provides key materials for study and reflection concerning the dialogue among science, philosophy, and theology. It includes scientists’ essays, masterpieces on the history of science, works of philosophers and theologians, and documents from ancient, medieval, and Renaissance authors, as well as Sacred Scripture and official documents of the Catholic Church and other Christian churches.

The Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia provides new, scholarly articles in the rapidly growing international field of Religion and Science. Most of these articles were written primarily by European authors and are available here for the first time in English. They offer a unique window into the approaches and perspectives of the European community toward what has become a field of immense cultural significance throughout the world. Each article provides a very readable and comprehensive summary of what is currently being discussed in religion and science on specific topics as well as how these topics have been discussed historically.

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