A teologia e as ciências: caminhos de diálogo e interdisciplinaridade

The enormous cultural influence of science and technology has led to a philosophical view of the world and of life, purely naturalistic and secularist. Such scientific naturalism – supposedly sanctioned by the results of contemporary science and widely spread by some contemporary scientists, the four horsemen of the new atheism, and the formal teaching of the sciences – claims an irreducible incompatibility between science and religious faith and theology. Contrary to this thesis, we argue – from some common features to science and theology – that scientific naturalism offers an opportunity for a complementary, interdisciplinary and fruitful dialogue between the sciences and theology, which allows to establish an inculturation of the Christian faith in today’s scientific culture, as a service to the good of human beings and their “integral ecology”, both in their social relations and in their relationship with Nature.