Dimensiuni teologice ale criticii părintelui Serafim Rose, asupra evoluționismului: omul între credință, rațiune și ispita progresului
Theological dimensions of Father Serafim Rose's criticism of evolutionism: man between faith, reason and the temptation of progress

Author(s): Marius-Alin IONICĂ, Ion-Marian Croitoru
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Other Christian Denominations
Published by: Ideas Forum International Academic and Scientific Association
Keywords: Seraphim Rose; Orthodox theology; Genesis; Evolutionism; Scientism; Patristic Tradition; Providence; Uniformitarianism; Eschatology; Chiliasm;
Summary/Abstract: This study analyzes Fr. Seraphim Rose’s critique of Evolutionism as not a neutral scientific hypothesis but a materialist ideology that reshapes views of creation, humanity, and history. Grounded in the patristic reading of Genesis, Fr. Seraphim argues that Evolutionism rests on prior commitments (Naturalism, Uniformitarianism, faith in progress) that exclude divine causality, relativize the Fall and death as consequences of sin, and diminish the need for salvation. Scientific methods valid within the post-Fall order, he contends, cannot adjudicate the world’s supernatural beginnings. Efforts to harmonize Evolutionism with Orthodoxy lead to allegorization and distortion of the Fathers. Beyond epistemology, Evolutionism fosters a secular eschatology—utopian/chiliastic hopes in human perfectibility—that displaces expectation of the Kingdom. The study concludes that fidelity to the patristic vision safeguards the coherence of Orthodox theology and anthropology.

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