It happened on JANUARY 19

1954

Theodor Kaluza died in Göttingen (Germany). He was a mathematician and physicist noted for his efforts to unify gravitation and electromagnetism by postulating a fifth dimension next to the fourth dimension acknowledged by Albert Einstein’s general relativity. A scientist with humanistic interests, he also studied more than fifteen languages, among them Hebrew and Arabic.

INTERS.org

Peace, Science and development

The Russell-Einstein Manifesto (1954)

The Erice Statement (1982)

Addendum to the Erice Manifesto (2023)

International Science Council State ment on the
occasion of the United Nations International Day
of Living Together in Peace (2024)

Peace: a need inscribed in the heart of human,
from the Compendium of the Social Doctrine
of the Church (2004)

Pope Francis, Address to the Pontifical Academy of Science (2022)

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.

Websites on Science and Religion

Articles of Historical Interest

A selection of book reviews from "Reviews in Science, Religion and Theology" (ISSR & ESSSAT)

2009

Documents for the 2009 Anniversary:
International Year of Astronomy
and II Centenary
of Darwin’s birth

in italiano

Break time

Rest on the rings

Ideas

You won't find many scientists who become believers through the practice of science. Most people are believers by education. Even if they get more involved in science by themselves and start to think about it, they still can't reject that part which they have by education, and then they try to separate that part of their beliefs and that part which concerns their activities. I have friends who are considered very good scientists and are very religious people, not by accident only, but by conviction. There must be some kind of split personality if you are the same time active in science and believe. They don't let the two interfere in their minds.

M. Mandel , quoted in F.E. Trinklein, The God of Science (New York: Exposition Press, 1983) p. 39