책임윤리를 위한 과학과 종교의 통합이론 모색*헤프너의 “창조된 공동창조자”를 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this paper emphasizes the perspective of integrated approach in the dialogue between science and religion by surveying various relations. Ian G. Barbour proposed a fourfold typology as an aid to sorting out the great variety of ways in which people have related science and religion. That is Conflict, Independence, Dialogue, and Integration. The perspective of integrated approach seeks more systematic and extensive partnership between science and religion. There is a hypothetical consonance, a theology of nature, process of philosophy, and confirmation in the integrated approach. This approach holds that nature is understood to be a dynamic and interdependent evolutionary process.Philip Hefner holds that we are created co-creator in an ongoing process of continuing creation. Evolution is God's way of creating free creatures and thereby opening up further creative possibilities. So we are creatures of nature and culture, conditioned by genes and previous history. As co-creators, we have freedom and the capacity to seek new directions. And, we can participate in this process in a responsible way.Therefore these attempts to make sense of both religion and science constitute one of our major resources for understanding and expressing our human life today. Understanding the responsible in the perspective of christian social ethics can be more viable and richer life on our planet today.