SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY — SHOW THE OPEN HORIZON
“What is the relationship between Science and Theology? The relationship has never been closer, because it is mathematics and physics which now point beyond the natural world. In 1931, before Bultmann began to use “modern” science to demythologize the Bible by excluding the supernatural, Herman Weyl, an eminent mathematician and physicist of Gottingen and later a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, opened the Terry Lectures of Yale with these remarks: “Mathematics and physics make the world appear more and more an open one, as a world not closed but pointing beyond itself.” Or, as Franz Werfel expresses it in pregnant wording in one of his poems, “Diese Welt ist nicht die Welt allein.” (This world is not merely the world.) Science finds itself compelled, at once by the epistemological, the physical, and the constructive- mathematical aspect of its own methods and results, to recognize this situation. It remains to be added that…
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