The rational production in the historical conditions of faith

with regard to science

Abstract

Because of the difference of their own pertinences, there is no possible direct dialogue between science and theologal faith. Indeed, there is nothing strange in this, because the same occurs between one science and another, between one science and philosophy and even between science and general culture. Each science is a close structure, and it speaks only its own language, ignoring all the others. But it does not mean that the dialogue among several kinds and genera of discourses is impossible. It is the interpreter's mediation that makes it possible, and philosophy is its privileged place and agent. By its own nature, and it is assisted by competent interpreters, who may be accumulated in the philosopher himself, philosophy is able to lead an universal dialogue. Through the aspects that it transcends, philosophy keeps borders with science and with general culture; through those that transcend it, philosophy keeps borders with theology. That, philosophy owes to the state, in which it is found, the historical conditions of revelation and faith.