Abstract

COLLADO RUANO, Javier. The Paradigm of Cosmodernity: Philosophical Reflections on Science and Religion. Sophia [online]. 2018, n.24, pp.53-85. ISSN 1390-8626.  https://doi.org/10.17163/soph.n24.2018.01.

The philosophical reflections of the present article have the goal to study the relationship between science and religion. According to academic consensus, modern science was born during the seventeenth century with a theological concern that sought to question religious authority. Since then, modern science was separated from the spiritual and religious dimensions, in order to objectively study the ontological structure of reality. This situation led to a religious syncretism that sought to reconcile different cultural traditions, as well as pantheism, whose philosophical conception conceived the natural laws of the universe and nature as a theological equivalent to the figure of “God” in different religions. For this reason, this article addresses the complexity of the phenomena of our ontological reality from a transdisciplinary approach, where science and religion merge to give way to the cosmodern paradigm. As a result of the integration between religious and scientific epistemes a global ethics is proposed that reinvents the sacred. The research also develops an interreligious and intra-religious dialogue that helps us to understand that nature and the cosmos constitute the meeting between the different scientific and religious knowledge. To conclude, it is argued that learning to coevolve consciously requires the development of an ecology of knowledge, where the outer physical knowledge and inner spiritual wisdom of our human condition converge and complement each other on different levels of logic and perception.

Keywords : Cosmodernity; education; science; religion; spirituality.

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