Rabbi Soloveitchik on Religion and Science – Where the Conflict Really Lies

Rabbi Yosef Dov Halevi Soloveitchik, a leading twentieth-century Jewish thinker, assigned central importance to both science and religion. However, the relationship between these domains in his thought remains unclear. This paper analyzes Soloveitchik's writings to address these questions. In The Lonely Man of Faith, he proudly states that the theoretical conflict between science and religion never troubled him. To explain this surprising statement and present his novel approach to the subject, I argue that for Soloveitchik, the tension lies not between the claims of science and religion but between their respective worldviews and lifestyles—scientism and religiosity

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