Um olhar revisto sobre a relação entre as ciências naturais e a fé cristã

Alexandre Freire Duarte

doi:10.23925/rct.i103.59913

Authors

Alexandre Freire Duarte Docente na Faculdade de Teologia da Universidade Católica Portuguesa e no Centro de Cultura Católica do Porto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/rct.i103.59913

Keywords:

natural sciences, Christian faith, mismatches, humility, hints of the divine

Abstract

This article presents a view, which is intended to be revised in its pondering and organization, on the sometimes tense relations between the natural sciences and the Christian faith. This is an issue that is always in vogue and this text aims to show that such tension has no reason to exist. In fact, this can be seen if one knows, with humility, the history of past mismatches and the reasons why, today, some hostility persists in that relationship. What is more, one can even take a step, still and always full of humility, to try to admit that these very sciences point discreetly to God.

Author Biography

Alexandre Freire Duarte, Docente na Faculdade de Teologia da Universidade Católica Portuguesa e no Centro de Cultura Católica do Porto

Doutor em Teologia pela Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Madrid). Docente na Faculdade de Teologia da Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP) e no Centro de Cultura Católica do Porto. Contato: afduarte@porto.ucp.pt

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