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Interdisciplinary Encyclopaedia of Religion and Science
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Relativity
by Alberto Strumia, Department of Mathematics, University of Bari, Italy
The theory of relativity is considered to be one of the greatest scientific theories of recent times as it allowed for the development of an entire cosmology, revolutionized the concepts of time, space, and matter, even from the philosophical point of view, and, together with quantum mechanics, it forms the basis of all of physics as we know it today...
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Spirit
Piero Coda, Pontifical Lateran University, Rome
In the Western tradition the notion of “spirit,” or “mind”, is rich and complex for the various religious, philosophical and theological meanings it comprises. In this polysemantic horizon, the symbol/concept of spirit is inherently one of tension, if not even bipolar: from the theological point of view, it denotes the presence of God in relation to the world and, dialectically, His difference from it in terms of transcendence and sacredness/sanctity...
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Technology
by Gualberto Gismondi, Faculty of Theology,
Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome
Technique came along with
mankind. Along the years, the term has acquired several meanings,
indicating rules and practical methods issuing from an art, a profession,
a job, an intellectual activity, a sport etc.; practical activities
based upon regulations evolving from experience, at different times
and areas...
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Time
Juan José Sanguineti, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome
We experience time as a continuous and unstoppable passage from what has been to what is now and, further, to what will be. This almost imperceptible flow does not mean that time is an absolute entity, for instance the so-called theory of “absolute” or empty time, advanced by Newton, among others; indeed, in reality, time is a characteristic that derives from movement, as thought by the “relational theory” of time, differently formulated by Aristotle and Leibniz…
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