Kuyper's razor? Rethinking science and religion, trinitarian scholarship and God's eternity
Abstract
This article explores three research fields in contemporary Christian scholarship and argues
that the way they are approached is often questionable due to the basic assumptions, the
methods or the implications. The following allegations are proposed. Research on the
relationship between religion and science is based on a framework of assumptions which does
not reflect the biblical standpoint properly. Trinitarian scholarship expects too much from
the presumed correspondence between Trinity and created reality, whilst it tends to neglect
other resources available to Christian scholarship. Scientific reflection on God’s eternity is
speculative in as much as it tries to transcend the modal horizon of knowledge. In these three
cases (other cases are also briefly mentioned) it is argued that ‘Kuyper’s razor’ (an approach
promoted in the Kuyperian reformational tradition) would help rethinking research in these
areas.
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