Drees's Typology
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Theodore (Ted) Peters (1941– ) at Counterbalance and Wikipedia. Drees's typology covers aspects of religion not covered in other efforts to organise our thinking about the relationship between science and religion.
See also A Critique of Willem B Drees’ Typology by Christopher Southgate at Counterbalance Foundation
| Drees's Typology of the relation between science and religion | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
CHARACTER of RELIGION | ||||
| 1. Cognitive | 2. Experience | 3. Tradition | ||
| <xx style="font-size:180%;line-height:1.3"> CHALLENGES POSED BY SCIENCE</xx> | (a) New Knowledge | (1a) Content:
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(2a) Opportunities for experiential religion? Religious experience and the brain | (3a) Religions traditions as products of evolution |
(b) New views of knowledge |
(1b) Philosophy of science and opportunities for theology |
(2b) Philosophical defenses of religious experiences as data |
(3b) Criticism and development of religions as ‘language games’ | |
(c) Appreciation of the world |
(1c) A new covenant between humans and the universe? |
(2c) Ambivalence of the world and implications for the concept of God |
(3c) A basis for hope? Or religions as local traditions without universal claim? | |
