Abstract
The postmodern situation has given rise to a quest for new understandings of the relationship between theology and science. Drawing illustrative material from an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, I look at three paradigmatic answers to the questionn posed in the title—th modern empirical scientific, the renewed medieval, and the post‐modern—with the goal of outlining a methodological approach for an engagement between Christian theology and sciencein the post‐modern context. Drawing insight from post‐empirical philosophy of science and the sociology of knowledge, I argue that both science and theology engage in the task of constructing a world for human habitation.
Keywords
theology, philosophy of science, sociology of knowledge, methodology, eschatology
How to Cite
Grenz, S., (2000) “Why Do Theologians Need to be Scientists?”, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 35(2), 331–356. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/0591-2385.00280