January 2004
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6 Reads
A partnership dialogue between natural sciences and theology should take into account the fact that contemporaly scientific-technical civilization lies on the assumption that natural sdences are merged with techno!og That fact has played, and it still plays, a crucial role in the comprehension of human knowledge, as well as the quantitative expansion and valuation of that knowledge. The modern man's way and progress of life is almost inconceivable without these kinds of knowledge. However, knowledge as such is not the problem; the problem is strictly the evaluation of knowledge according to the criteria of scientific-technical efficiency and profit. In such circumstances, the sense of wisdom has been lost almost completely, as well as the inclination of knowledge toward wisdom and experience which cannot he subjected to measuring criteria of scientific-technical efficiency and benefit. Christian wisdom should inevitably criticize the general forgetting of wisdom in modern time, and it should warn that, in the end, a man filled with knowledge, but empty of wisdom, becomes a loser when facing the history.