A Critical Realist Perspective of Education by Shipway Brad;

Author:Shipway, Brad;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Education
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2010-07-22T00:00:00+00:00

not merely legitimated by Christian theology, but is actually demanded on account of the Christian understanding of the nature of reality’ (2001: 20).

On this view, the choice to engage in a dialogue between the natural sciences and Christian theology is by no means motivated by a random personal interest, or a creative intellectual endeavour, and neither is it merely a pragmatic strategy, designed to bring about a sort of academic ‘truce’ between theology and the rest of the Academy. Rather, it is the public function of giving an account of our truth-claims because we believe they refer to something real. Any ‘respectable Christian world-view will insist it has something to say in response’ to the other disciplines that offer explanations about the different strata of reality (2002: 119).

McGrath is aware of the consternation over Bhaskar’s ‘spiritual turn’ within CR (Morgan 2003, cited in McGrath 2008), but nonetheless proceeds to make a claim for the explanatory power of the Christian tradition:29

Although specific to the Christian tradition, this style of natural theology has aspirations to universality. It offers a coherent organising logic which is able to account, not only for its own existence, but also for that of its intellectual and spiritual rivals. In short: natural theology offers and embodies a traditionspecific yet trans-traditional rationality, which is grounded in the particularities of the Christian tradition alone.

(McGrath 2008: 249)

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