Theology needs science. So writes William C. Mattison, a moral theologian at the Catholic University of America in the most recent issue of Integritas. Or rather, to be more precise, Mattison suggests that human beingsâ??we, who are thinking creaturesâ??must ponder questions that demand science, while being unafraid to raise questions that are ultimately theological.
The reason why theology needs science, he writes, is that ultimately it is human beings who ask questions and who must use the various disciplines to answer them.
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