By Hubertus R. Drobner, Siegfried Schatzmann
Solid, strong, modern introductions to patristic authors and writings are tricky to discover within the English-speaking international, and eu volumes are dear. This quantity, that is Siegfried Schatzmann's translation of "Lehrbuch der Patrologie", bargains English-speaking readers easy accessibility to Hubertus R. Drobner's conventional advent to early Christian concept.
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43 Despite his confidence that China would soon far surpass the West, 44 Russell failed to see that it was precisely religious obstacles that had prevented Chinese science. Although for centuries the common people of China have worshiped an elaborate array of gods, each of small scope and often rather lacking in character, Chinese intellectuals prided themselves in following “godless” religions, wherein the supernatural is conceived of as an essence or principle governing life—such as the Tao—that is impersonal, remote, and definitely not a being.
For those holding these religious premises, the path to wisdom is through meditation and mystical insights, and there is no occasion to celebrate reason. The critical point in all of this is methodological. Centuries of meditation will produce no empirical knowledge. But to the extent that religion inspires efforts to comprehend God’s handiwork, knowledge will be forthcoming, and because to comprehend something fully it is necessary to explain it, science arises as the “hand-maiden” of theology.
The same applies to Buddhism and Confucianism. 3 The East lacks theologians because those who might otherwise take up such an intellectual pursuit reject its first premise: the existence of a conscious, all-powerful God. In contrast, Christian theologians have devoted centuries to reasoning about what God may have really meant by various passages in scripture, and over time the interpretations often have evolved in quite dramatic and extensive ways. For example, not only does the Bible not condemn astrology but the story of the Wise Men following the star might seem to suggest that it is valid.