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Kirsberg, I. V. How to Disguise Theology as Science from the Point of View of Phenomenology

Abstract: The first part of the article describes the grounds for viewing theology as a science. The author shows the axiological (instead of cognitive) quality of theology. Based on the analysis of interaction between feelings and cogitation, the author shows how diverse theology as a discipline, although it is admitted that the axiological elements prevail. Religious studies are analyzed in the same way and the author shows their cognitive and scientific (but not axiological) meaning, diversity and the prevailing tendency as a discipline. The second part of the article shows the possibility to disguise theology as science as well as opportunities of phenomenology and its advantages over post-positivism in such disguise. The author also describes the non-theology phenomenology in Edmund Husserl’s religious studies based on the analysis of the difference between axiological and cognitive meanings.


Keywords:

philosophy, phenomenology, demarcation, theology, disguise, pseudoscience, religious studies, value, knowledge, science.


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