Review article
https://doi.org/10.32701/dp.27.1.1
The Dialogue Between Theology and Science as a Sincere Search for Truth: Between Scientific Experiment and Religious Experience
Ilche Micevski-Ignat
; Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Faculty of Orthodox Theology “Saint Clement of Ohrid”, Skopje, Makedonia
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Abstract
The search for truth has been a very old preoccupation since ancient times.
Ancient philosophers and sages were engaged in it. The search for truth has
not stopped but continues to this day. We can say that the greatest seekers of
truth today are scientists in all areas of scientific research. On the other hand,
there are theologians that know Who is the Truth (John 14:6), trying to be in
communion with the truth through spiritual life. This study attempts to explain
the dialogue between Orthodox theology and science, as well as their different
methods through which they come to the knowledge of truth. The path to truth
can be found, but the methods are different because science and theology use
different approaches. Both can have the same goal, which would be to find the
truth, but the different experiences that science and Orthodox theology have
must be specified. Science uses observation and experimentation of the things
it wants to know, explaining them through rational discourse, but on the other
hand it has its own limitations. Theology uses the centuries–old spiritual experience
gained in the life of the Church, whose goal is the knowledge of God and
communion with Him. When a comparison is made, a difference appears in the
knowledge of the material and the immaterial. Although the methods seem different,
the goal seems to be the same, and that is to find the answers that lead humanity to the knowledge of the truth. Science and theology can find a common understanding for finding and knowing the truth.
Keywords
dialog, experiment, limitation of science, science, spiritual experience, theology, truth
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Publication date:
26.3.2026.
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