我国学界对现代科学与基督宗教的关系问题存在一些片面看法。科学革命的兴起同基督宗教的如下信念有关:理性上帝创造的自然界有规律,因而可理解;世界作为被造物不具有神性,因而可以研究并进行管理;上帝创造不受制于任何必然性,因而在事实与理论冲突时必须尊重事实,这正是科学的灵魂。探究科学革命与新教伦理的关系,可以说明基督宗教与人文主义在精神上具有一致性。

In Part One of the article,the author analyses the one-sided view of the relationship of modern science to Christianity which has long been popular in China.In Part Two,he points out the scientific revolution had much to do with the Christian beliefs:the natural world made by the rational God is orderly,hence comprehensible;the world as creature is not divine hence can be researched and ruled over;Creation is not subject to any necessity,hence facts are always over theories.In Part Three,he explores the relations of the scientific revolution to Protestant ethics,and argues for the union of Christianity and Humanism.