Światopoglądowy i ideologiczny wymiar epistemicznych układów odniesienia a teistyczno-naturalistyczny epistemiczny układ odniesienia
The Worldview and Ideological Dimension of Epistemic Frameworks Generally and the Theistic-Naturalistic Epistemic Framework in Particular

Summary/Abstract: This paper explains what it is for epistemic frameworks to involve worldviews and ideological commitments, while also indicating the actual worldviews and ideological components present in such frameworks. In addition, it sets out to show that the ideological conflict between different epistemic frameworks is already bringing about changes to the form of Western civilization.Against this general background, naturalistic theism is presented. The epistemic frameworks previously discussed give rise to cognitive frameworks for the practicing of science, and naturalistic theism is one such epistemic framework, furnishing a specific and distinctive worldview framework of its own for scientific practice. In this case its aim is to enable an overcoming of the crisis of faith amongst educated people generally and scientists in particular. That crisis is a consequence of the incompatibility of a traditional theistic description of the world with the contemporary scientific one.Naturalistic theism, moreover, seeks to defend Christian civilization from attempts to transform it into a post-Christian civilization. It aims to achieve this by reconciling the image of the world provided by contemporary natural science with Christian theism itself. Both the defusing of the crisis of faith and the reconciling of the scientific and theistic images of the world are to be accomplished through a “skillful reading” of Biblical texts. However, where the accompanying worldview and epistemic commitments are concerned, such a “reading” comes at a very high price.

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