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Editor’s Introduction

2016; University of Chicago Press; Volume: 107; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1086/688418

1545-6994

H. Floris Cohen,

Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices

Previous articleNext article FreeViewpoint: Science and Orthodox Christianity: An Overview and Six CommentsEditor’s IntroductionH. Floris CohenH. Floris Cohen Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreThe Viewpoint section that follows deals with a missing link in the long-standing history of science and religion. As distinct from Roman Catholicism, Orthodox Catholicism has so far remained largely outside the ongoing debate. One year ago, my participation in a conference in Athens gave me a chance to help mitigate its absence. Our conference organizer, Efthymios Nicolaidis, was heading a team of mostly young scholars who, under the label NARSES, were making large strides in finding out how, from the Byzantine period up to the 1930s, the Greek Orthodox religion was related to natural philosophy and, later, to science in those regions. It seemed a good idea to invite Nicolaidis, together with his team, to sum up the major conclusions of their four-year enterprise. It also seemed a good idea to have a number of experts (some present at the conference, some not) comment on the resulting paper from the points of view of a variety of other religions.In this Viewpoint section the reader will encounter the following contributions. There is first a summary of the project and its main results by Efthymios Nicolaidis and his team. There follow, in succession, comments by Christoph Lüthy from the point of view of Roman Catholicism; by Karl Hall and Dimitri Bayuk from the point of view of Russian Orthodoxy; by Robert Morrison from the point of view of, mostly, Islam; by Yakov M. Rabkin from the point of view of Judaism; by Peter Harrison from the point of view of Protestantism; and by John Hedley Brooke and Ronald L. Numbers from the point of view of the world’s religions. I thank all the contributors for their willingness to supply comments, some of them on rather short notice. I hope that the reader will be satisfied at learning how it is that one particular link need no longer be regarded as missing. Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Isis Volume 107, Number 3September 2016 Publication of the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/688418 © 2016 by The History of Science Society. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.