RATIONALITY AND INTERSUBJECTIVITY IN THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN THEOLOGY AND SCIENCE IN FR DUMITRU STĂNILOAE’S VISION
RATIONALITY AND INTERSUBJECTIVITY IN THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN THEOLOGY AND SCIENCE IN FR DUMITRU STĂNILOAE’S VISION

Summary/Abstract: Two of the key themes running throughout Fr. Dumitru Stăniloae’s work are the concepts of rationality and intersubjectivity. The first one is developed in the cosmological context, and the second one in the trinitarian understanding of the unity of the divine being, both pointing to the possibilities of the human being to become united with God without losing the understanding of the created world. The logoi manifest themselves in the world as many, but they are from the One, and form a connection point between the uncreated and the created. They are personal, like words from God, and they are all bound together in the Reason, Logos of the once pre-incarnate, and now the incarnate and resurrected Christ. This is a common point of reference for both science and theology in as much as science has also discovered purpose, principles and information inherent in the cosmos. Modern genetics, with the recent mapping of the human genome, and physicists’ openness to the “mind” in the cosmos have profound interconnectivity with the topic the logoi in the works of Dumitru Stăniloae. Along with the current trend of science’s opening up to the rationality of the world, scientific apophaticism bears directly on the subject of logoi, and promises a fruitful encounter.

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