Scientific rationality and “reduction to the theology”

Shmonin, Dmitry

doi:10.21638/spbu28.2019.301

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“…Thee research aim and objectives determine the cor2us of the sources re2resented mainly by 2olemical texts and intellectual journalism. However, it is worth noting that the author does not base the analysis on the scientificc texts about the 2lace, role and status of theology in the contexts of the humanities (Bokov, 2013;Gaginsky, 2019;Malimonova, 2015;Snisarenko, 2020;Shmonin, 2019), 2resuming that they can become the basis for other studies with diff[erent goals and objectives. Institutional background or the factors that facilitated the transfer of theology from the academic fieeld into mass media discourse.…”

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Summa Theologiae 2.0: Intellectual Mass Media in the Modern Russian Realities, or How “The Academic” became “The Mediatic”

Kyrchanoff

2021

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The research paper focuses on the specific features of the status of theology in the modern humanities in Russia. Studying the complexities and difficulties of the institutionalisation of theology and its localisation in the Russian university system and academic culture, the author foregrounds the post-Soviet European experience of the Baltic countries and Ukraine, where theology acquired the status of a “normal” science earlier than in Russia. Within the framework of this study, the peculiarities of the controversial status of theology in the system of higher education as well as in the Russian postgraduate and doctoral studies are considered in the contexts of the frontier of knowledge and the post-Soviet stereotypes. It is assumed that several factors, including the Soviet atheistic cultural heritage, the post-Soviet system of secular degrees and the traditionally significant role of representatives of the natural sciences in the academic community, may significantly contribute to slowing down the transformation of theology into a “normal” science. The paper also deals with the issue of how theology is transforming from the church life of the Russian Christians and becoming more noticeable in the Russian educational cultures and academic spaces. The arguments of the supporters and opponents of the official institutionalisation of theology in the higher education system are critically examined. The author pays special attention to the prospects and possibilities of using the Western experience of “secularization” of theology and its integration into the secular canons of science.

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Summa Theologiae 2.0: Intellectual Mass Media in the Modern Russian Realities, or How “The Academic” became “The Mediatic”

Kyrchanoff

2021

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“…Однако именно этот термин позволяет очертить пространство и динамику процессов, в результате которых теологические исследования получают в общественном сознании ученых статус научных исследований, а сама теология обретает контуры научной дисциплины. Разумеется, теология в ее традиционном понимании, будучи цельной системой мировосприятия, не исчерпывается дискурсом науки [12][13][14], однако в рамках данной статьи мы ограничиваем предмет анализа именно содержанием дискурса рациональной теологии как отрасли знания. Равным образом вне предмета рассмотрения окажется проблема стратификации теологического дискурса в соответствии с критериями «модернизма»/«фундаментализма», которые, помимо прочего, оказываются сложно демаркируемыми, подверженными своеобразному концептуальному дрейфу [15], с учетом того, что сама религия в философских и отчасти теологических исследованиях выступает в качестве дискурсивной формы реальности [16, с.…”

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Institutionalization of theology: Experience and prospects

Прилуцкий¹,

Shmonin²

2022

Vestnik SPbSU. Philosophy and Conflict Studies

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The article explores the institutionalization of theology in domestic scientific and educational society, which is understood as a set of processes, as a result of which theological research receives the status of scientific research in the public consciousness of scientists, while theology itself acquires the contours of a scientific discipline. The processes of institutionalizing theology, providing it with a place in the space of knowledge, leads to the fact that basic criteria for evaluating a scientific product begin to spread to theological research, which gives rise to a number of theoretical and methodological difficulties. One of the most important criteria in evaluating a scientific product is the requirement of “novelty” and “originality” of scientific research, which cannot be mechanically extended to theological research. It is obvious that neither in theology nor in other areas of scientific knowledge can these criteria be considered apart from other traditional requirements that scientific research must meet. The authors believe that behind the disputes about the content of the criteria for novelty and originality of theological research, there are discussions about the status of the humanities that have not been resolved at the conceptual and methodological level. In addition, theology is often compared with the philosophy of religion, religious philosophy, and/or religious studies. In this regard, the norms of novelty and originality of research that have developed in these disciplines are often automatically transferred to the space of theology. As a result of the analysis of the specifics of theological knowledge, the authors came to the conclusion that discoveries in the field of theology are becoming not so many factors in the revolutionary breaking of stable theological concepts, but a tool for their consistent improvement within the existing paradigm.

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Church and Liberal Healthcare: Need of Spiritual and Moral Education for Healthcare Workers

Mikhel

2023

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Filosofiâ

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The increased attention of the Orthodox Church to issues of medical education in our country was the result of the fact that in the 1990s it once again became one of the most active forces in our society. The connection between the church and the medical community, which goes back to a time when the doctoring of the mind and bodily health was in fact the work of the same people, cannot leave the church indifferent to the professional formation of healthcare workers. The Soviet era saw the forced de-Christianization of the medical profession and measures taken to abolish medical ethics rooted in the Hippocratic Oath and the Gospel commandments. The restoration of dialogue between church and medicine began after the collapse of the Soviet state, but it is still insufficiently regular. Currently, factors complicating this dialogue are liberal medical legislation and capitalist economies in health care. The former, by legalizing abortion, artificial insemination, and sterilization, absolves the doctor of moral responsibility in matters concerning the management of human life; the latter encourages him to view his profession not as a service, but as a means of making money from other people’s suffering. If the dialogue between church and medicine were to be carried on permanently within the walls of medical schools, it would strengthen the spiritual and moral foundations of the medical profession, upon which it has always existed. One of the most significant forms of this dialogue should undoubtedly be the teaching of biomedical ethics, which should be grounded in modern theology and the values of traditional spiritual cultures of Russia.

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Scientific rationality and “reduction to the theology”

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Summa Theologiae 2.0: Intellectual Mass Media in the Modern Russian Realities, or How “The Academic” became “The Mediatic”

Summa Theologiae 2.0: Intellectual Mass Media in the Modern Russian Realities, or How “The Academic” became “The Mediatic”

Institutionalization of theology: Experience and prospects

Church and Liberal Healthcare: Need of Spiritual and Moral Education for Healthcare Workers

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