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- 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
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“Thus there are two Books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of His servant Nature, that universal and publick Manuscript, that lies expans’d unto the Eyes of all: those that never saw Him in the one, have discover’d Him in the other”
(T. Browne, Religio Medici, Part I, ch. 15) |
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| 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 (ISSN: 2037-2329), 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. |
September 3
| On this day in history in 1914, Giacomo Della Chiesa (1854-1922) was elected pope, taking the name Benedict XV. In the encyclical Ad beatissimi Apostolorum (1914) he set forth guidelines for the discussion of theological matters not regulated by declarations from the Holy See. In another, more noted encyclical, Spiritus Paraclitus (1921) he addressed the inerrancy and inspiration of Holy Scripture and its relationship with other kinds and sources of knowing. Spiritus Paraclitus reads in part: “As regards matters in which without harm to faith or discipline — in the absence of any authoritative intervention of the Apostolic See — there is room for divergent opinions, it is clearly the right of everyone to express and defend his own opinion. But in such discussions no expressions should be used which might constitute serious breaches of charity; let each one freely defend his own opinion, but let it be done with due moderation, so that no one should consider himself entitled to affix on those who merely do not agree with his ideas the stigma of disloyalty to the faith or to discipline” (DH 3625). |
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 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. |
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