18/08/2022

Mathematical Models in Theology: Are They Helpful?

Speaker Stanis?aw Krajewski (University of Warsaw, Poland).

Chair: Ali Sadegh Daghighi (Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Fundamental Sciences, Iran).

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Abstract: We will begin by reviewing some mathematical illustrations of religious concepts, both old, for example by Cusanus, and a few new mathematical models in theology. The problem is how helpful they are. They can illustrate ideas, but remain metaphorical pictures assisting our imagination and attempts to deal with paradoxical situations. The deeper problem is whether they can model divine realms in a way that would suggest new insights as it is possible in the case of math models in natural sciences.