Science and Religion in the Kraków School

Abstract

This article outlines the contributions of the Kraków School to the field of science and religion. The Kraków School is a group of philosophers, scientists, and theologians who belong to the milieu of the Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. The members of the group are engaged in inquiries pertaining to the relationship between theology and various sciences, in particular cosmology, evolutionary theory, and neuroscience. The article includes a presentation of the historical background of the School, as well as its main original contributions pertaining to the history of the interactions between science and religion, the rationality and mathematicity of the universe, theology of science, and the role of logic in theology.

The Future of Religion and Science Around the World

“…Jianhui Li and Zheng Fu inform us of a particular issue that emerged in China, the rise of claims about traditional knowledge, extrasensory perception and extraordinary abilities in the Qigong movement, and the way this was facilitated and then suppressed by the government (see also Palmer ). This interesting mix of articles shows glocalization—the interplay of global and local (Drees )—and thereby adds to the diversity of questions and contexts as shown in contributions on Japan (Kim ), Catholic Southern Europe (Oviedo and Garre ), and on Kraków, Poland (Brożek and Heller ).…”

Theology of science: Its collocation and critical role for understanding of limits of theological and scientific investigations

“…It does 2016; Oleksowicz, 2020;Rodzeń, 2021). As to the science and religion dialogue in the Kraków School, see: (Brożek and Heller, 2015;Obolevitch, 2015;Polak and Rodzeń, 2021;2023). 4 I use this expression following (Tyson, 2022, pp.26-39).…”

Far Away and at Home: Multiple Interactions of Religion and Science

“…In 2015, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science had various essays on religion and science in different countries around the world, in Asia (Balslev ; Kim ; Li and Fu ), Latin America (Silva ), Africa (Conradie and Du Toit ), the Middle East (Guessoum ), and Europe (Brożek and Heller ; Evers ; Oviedo and Garre ). One more essay in this series appears in this issue.…”