Ideias sobre o começo
Igreja Católica e a cosmologia contemporânea (1936-2014)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5847215 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eliana Cristina Zequim (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | THESIS |
| Publisher | Universidade de São Paulo. Agência de Bibliotecas e Coleções Digitais (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.11606/d.8.2018.tde-23102018-141555 |
| OpenAlex | W2904323034 |
| Language | PT |
| References cited | 3 |
that the evolution and Big Bang theories do not contradict the book of Genesis, was taken by surprise by different means of communication, thus reflecting the common-sense idea that there is a necessary conflict between Church and science.With the purpose of contributing to demystify this idea, at least regarding cosmology, we have analyzed the relationship history among the Catholic Church, astronomy and cosmology up to the 21st century, besides the history as to how science and religion constituted themselves in various fields of human knowledge.By going against the position defended in the last decades by the historiography of sciences that there is a necessary conflict between science and religion, we noted that the trend of the Catholic Church is to position itself favorably to the dominant paradigms in each age.By confirming that the Church has positioned itself favorably to the Big Bang theory while it was still not consolidated as a paradigm, and competed with other theories such as Steady State, we traced an overview of the European cosmology development from ancient Greeks to the 21st century, in an attempt to understand not only the development of this science, but also how the Big Bang became the field paradigm, and why it became an interesting theory to the Catholic Church.Then we analyzed the history, the regiments, publications and biographies of members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Vatican Observatory, besides the papal pronouncements made to this Academy, in an attempt to understand how the scientists of these institutions influenced the Popes' positions on cosmology between 1936 (year the Academy was founded) and 2014, where we noticed that the discussions promoted when these scholars met contribute to the legitimacy of the Popes' speeches on science, as well as the Church's positions regarding this matter.We also noticed that, via its official channels throughout the last century, the Catholic Church sought to entrench the idea of keeping a harmonic relationship with science, contributing to its development, and investing in the Academy and the Observatory as a means to reinforce such positions, in a context of secularization of the Western political and academic world, where its position of political and moral authority is constantly questioned and needs to be defended
Astronomy · Cosmology · Epistemology · Greeks · Historiography · Physics · Sociology · Surprise · Aviation History and Innovations · Classics · Health, Education, and Aging · History · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |