SCRIPTURA  

Cornel Du Toit

The South African Science and Religion Forum (SASRF) was established in 1993 as a project of the Research Institute for Theology and Religion (RITR) at Unisa.  The idea was to establish an inter-disciplinary forum where theologians, natural scientist... see more

P Joshi

In a short article like this, it is impossible to deal with most of the Vedantic concepts, and the accumulated modern scientific data which have supported – and continue to support – them as valid truths with regard to the mystery of creation.  It is... see more

S Fakir

Islamic worldview construction emanates from essentially two sources: The Quran and the Prophetic tradition referred to as the Sunnah.  This we may regard as a form of direct hermeneutics, in which the holder of faith may receive his/her value orient... see more

H Avidan

Judaism has been traditionally supportive of science and nowhere is this more evident than in the intense involvement of Jews with medicine.  In biblical times considerable care was taken to ensure the highest possible standards of public health.&nbs... see more

M Clasquin

Although the similarity between Buddhism and the scientific world-view has been exaggerated in recent years, the coincidental and analogical similarity in terminology between the two has enabled practicing Buddhists to live in a science-dominated society ... see more

C W Du Toit

World-views are the pleasant stories with which generations identify in order to explain themselves and the world in which they live.  A world-view is the harmonious picture made up of all the jigsaw pieces of life.  These pieces all seem to fit... see more

Peter Barrett

The meanings and aims of natural theology in its historical and contemporary phases are discussed.  As ‘the search for God through the exercise of reason and the observation of the world’, it complements the theology of revelation and constitutes the... see more

J R Kriel

Since the beginning of the nineteenth century western medicine has identified itself with the natural sciences and therefore with the world-view of the natural sciences.  This ‘natural science turn’ led to great technical insight into and control of ... see more

P F Craffert

After pointing out some general features of concept world-view, thematic theories of world-view analysis are compared to systematic theories.  The latter is explored in that a model is presented which can serve not only for systematic world-view anal... see more

E M Conradie

One of the classic tasks of religious cosmologies is to provide us with a story within which we can live.  Cosmologies provide us with a story of the origin and destiny of the universe and of the place of humanity within the cosmos.  They answer... see more

R S Sarracino

Science and religion, the two wings of the bird of civilization, are called in the Baha’i writings ‘the two most potent forces in human life’ (Shoghi Effendi 1938:204). From Baha’i scripture a remarkably unific view of the harmony of science and religion ... see more

Robin M Crewe

The title of this contribution suggests a synthesis of views that are common to natural scientists.  However, the views present here are a reflection of my own view of the subject and may be considered to represent a sceptical and non-theistic one wh... see more

J Teffo

South African history has largely been shaped on the premise of white supremacy.  Political and religious pluralism began to be conceptualized and articulated within the context of the political struggle for liberation and human dignity.  The ne... see more