1st International Conference trailer

The Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation invites you to attend the First International Conference of the Project Science & Orthodoxy around the World (SOW) on Friday 24 and Saturday 25 February 2017 at the National Hellenic Research Foundation (Leonidas Zervas Auditorium), 48, Vasileos Konstantinou Ave, Athens.
Project SOW aims at exploring the status of the dialog between Orthodox Christianity and Science throughout the world, and to make it visible across all appropriate audiences. It will achieve this by mapping the various attitudes and opinions and making them widely available and discussed throughout the international community of historians and philosophers of science, scientists, theologians and clergy. The conference focuses on the nature of the relationship between modern Science and Orthodox Christianity with its centuries-old tradition. Orthodoxy today shares a variety of—sometimes ambiguous—attitudes towards modern Science shaped by the texts of the Church Fathers, medieval and modern theologians and scholars, as well as contemporary social realities. On the other hand, modern Science, which sprung from the seventeenth-century quest by Western-European philosophers for rationality, is faced with crucial and uneasy questions about the meaning of life and the position of Humankind within the natural world.