It happened on OCTOBER 16

1747
The mathematician Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783) and the philosopher Denis Diderot (1713-1784) began drafting their Encyclopédie with the aim, the first of its kind, of gathering all of human knowledge together in one work.

1978

Karol Wojtyla was elected pope, taking the name John Paul II. He promoted a renewed dialogue between faith and culture, and he authored key documents on the relationship between theology and scientific thought."

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Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Religion and Science

The Encyclopedia, published by the Centro di Documentazione Interdisciplinare di Scienza e Fede operating at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, provides new, scholarly articles in the rapidly growing international field of Religion and Science (ISSN: 2037-2329). INTERS is a free online encyclopedia.

Anthology and Documents

To emphasize and spread relevant documents within the scientific community, this section provides key materials concerning the dialogue among science, philosophy and theology.

   

Special Issues

We offer here a selection of comments and documents on special issues in Religion and Science, collected for anniversaries and/or for the relevance of the topics.