The Analogical Model of Cognitive Principles and Its Significance for the Dialogue between Science and Theology

Pohar, Borut

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“…Now we will present four such ontological levels of reality, which are highlighted in the mountain-body model of understanding (Cf. Pohar 2021). They are inextricably linked to the specific types of meaning perception and reasoning (i.e., specific a posteriori scientific methods), which investigate each of them.…”

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“…In this article, we use the mountain-body model of understanding (Cf. Pohar 2021), which presupposes four different layers of reality and, consequently, four different types of methods, which will be explained below. However, before trying to confirm the reasonableness of the Christian worldview with the Argument from True Love, we must first show that our method of inference to the best explanation is legitimate and trustworthy.…”

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Trinitarian Natural Theology and the Argument from True Love

Pohar¹

2022

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Christian apologetics has recently gained a new impetus from authors such as Alister McGrath, who advocates a new, Trinitarianapproach to natural theology, the main purpose of which is to confirm a resonance between scientific discoveries and Christian doctrine, thus confirming its credibility. In this article, we use Trinitarian natural theology, which has many advantages over classical natural theology, on the example of the surprising phenomenon of true love. This is manifested in the material world in The Principle of Insufficient Reason, observable through observations of deeds of love, which lack reciprocity and, in the lifeworld in the essence of ratio-sui or selfexplicability of true love, experienceable through experiences of explanation of the reasons for love with love itself. The analysis of different layers of reality and its scientific methods, together with the postpositivistic recognition of the plurality of methods, has shown that the method of inference to the best explanation, which is used in the article, is a legitimate scientific method. The Christian doctrine of the Triune God of Love and the doctrine of perichoresis make perfect sense of the empirical observations and lifeworld experiences of true love. However, the question remains unanswered: which of the worldviews best explains the curious and surprising phenomenon of true love?

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Trinitarian Natural Theology and the Argument from True Love

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2022

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The Gospel’s Double Antisymmetry as the End-Point of the Development of Western Society

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2022

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In this article, we addressed the question whether the Gospel’s double antisymmetry can be found in the reality as such and especially in Western society, which has obviously made a development in its history.Based on the conceptual analysis of language, we came to the conclusion that there are four layers of reality: the material world, lifeworld, material life and personal life. Through the analysis of individual layers of reality, we have come to the realization that they are characterized by the double antisymmetry (horizontal and vertical) spoken of in the Gospel. While the world (material and lived) is characterized by the primacy of parts over the whole, life (material and personal) is characterized by the primacy of the whole over the parts. Furthermore, if the material world and material life are characterized by the supremacy of the abstract over the concrete, the lifeworld and personal life are characterized by the supremacy of the concrete over the abstract. Based on the examples from logic, science, and society, we also show how this antisymmetry manifests itself in concrete phenomena of everyday life and how it points to the gradual conversion of Western society, which is, according to our conclusion, becoming more and more like the People of God, the heir of the Kingdom of Heaven proclaimed by Jesus of Nazareth.

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Mystery and Humility in the Depths of Understanding of Reality

Pohar

2023

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The scientific process of understanding natural phenomena such as evolution is an important tool for human progress, so it is good to know where it begins and where it ends, or where it leads. In this article, we put forward the observation that mysticism begins when, in understanding phenomena, we move into the intellectual realm of the unobservable and invisible material and personal life processes, which are interconnected in two ways. On the one hand, the material life processes, which can be contemplated mystically by means of scientific explanations, analogical models, and imagination, are the reason for the purposefulness of identities that are the fruit of personal processes. These are experts, professional and amateur scientists, and lay scientists who are attracted to identity precisely because of the material life processes in which they have an interest, enthusiasm, or passion. On the other hand, it is precisely their mental engagement with these material life processes through the mystical contemplation of the beautiful solutions to nature’s problems that makes them true since truth is classically conceived precisely as the correspondence between intellect and a thing. Discerning the truth of hypotheses, theories, mid-range theories, and meta-theories, however, requires humility at all levels because of the collective way of seeking truth. In this process of truth discernment, it is necessary to accept humbly that I may be wrong and that my neighbor may be right, which ultimately leads us to the mysticism of the Triune God’s merciful love.

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The Analogical Model of Cognitive Principles and Its Significance for the Dialogue between Science and Theology

Cited by 3 publications

References 18 publications

Trinitarian Natural Theology and the Argument from True Love

Trinitarian Natural Theology and the Argument from True Love

The Gospel’s Double Antisymmetry as the End-Point of the Development of Western Society

Mystery and Humility in the Depths of Understanding of Reality

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