A Brief History of the Relationship between Religion and Science in Culture and Civilization
Journal: Journal of Religion and Theology
Year: 2026

Science and Orthodoxy are not necessarily in conflict, but can coexist, Orthodox spirituality having a more open vision towards the meaning of science than some Western theological approaches, favoring a cultural rapprochement in the current context, based on a common understanding of the search for truth.Unlike other Western Christian traditions, the history of Orthodoxy does not know an institutionalized persecution against science (for example, an equivalent of the Galileo Galilei case).The O