TY - JOUR AU - Engberg-Pedersen, Troels PY - 2014/03/10 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Religion som verdenshåndtering JF - Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift JA - DTT VL - 77 IS - 1 SE - Artikler DO - 10.7146/dtt.v77i1.105699 UR - https://tidsskrift.dk/dtt/article/view/105699 SP - 27-45 AB - <p>The article discusses two questions: whether (and in what<br />sense) Christianity can be ‘naturalized’; and whether ancient Stoicism<br />may contribute to a modern reformulation of ‘Christianity naturalized’.<br />To answer these questions, the article focuses on articulating an understanding<br />of ‘religion’ in relation to ‘science’. Building on the account<br />given of the philosophical discipline of ‘ethics’ by Hilary Putnam in<br />Ethics without Ontology, the article attempts to construct a structurally<br />similar understanding of ‘religion’ (and its philosophical counterpart,<br />‘theology’) that will give it a legitimate position ‘in an age of science’<br />(cf. Putnam, Philosophy in an Age of Science). ‘Religion’ is here seen as<br />one particular way of ‘coping with the world’. The article concludes<br />by sketching some ways in which ancient Stoicism (as a specimen of a<br />‘natural philosophy and theology’) may help in reformulating an adequate,<br />contemporary understanding of Christianity.</p> ER -