Article ID: CBB144851888

Science, Eastern Orthodoxy, and World Religions (2016)

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The history of Orthodoxy and science invites contrasts with other religious traditions. In contradistinction to the Latin West, for example, Eastern Orthodoxy throughout its history embraced the “pagan” scientific achievements of ancient Greece. Also unlike in the West, where ecclesiastical institutions often supported scientific activities, scholars in the East—in both the Byzantine and Ottoman periods—relied primarily on temporal sources to sustain their investigations of nature. Islam, with its strenuous resistance to any assimilation of the human to the divine, provides another contrasting example, as does the later Protestant justification for science grounded in the need to restore a fallen world through the application of experimental research. Not surprisingly, Eastern Orthodox believers seem to have paid little attention to non-Christian faiths, with the exception of Islam and Judaism, until well into the twentieth century.

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Authors & Contributors
Nicolaïdis, Efthymios
Delli, Eudoxie
Rotman, Youval
Kilakos, Dimitris
Blake, Stephen P.
Esperanza, Anabella
Concepts
Science and religion
Orthodox Christianity
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Judaism
Islam
Roman Catholicism
Time Periods
19th century
Medieval
20th century
17th century
Early modern
Modern
Places
Ottoman Empire
Byzantium
Greece
Turkey
Russia
France
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