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Interrelationship between science and religion is probably the most sensitive and most emotionally laden subject in the whole volume of Soviet atheism’s spoken and written output. Its aim is to prove that these are incompatible, that only science and the scientific method are true and pursue the truth, and that therefore the essential nature of religious faith is obscurantism and ignorance. Had militant atheism been able to prove these theses this would not only have been a decisive victory for ‘scientific’ atheism in the eyes of the vast majority of the Soviet public, but would have also considerably raised the prestige and pretences of Marxism itself by virtue of its claims to being a scientific social doctrine, and atheistic in addition.
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Notes and References
Besides the sources cited in this chapter, here are some of the major Soviet titles specializing in the religion—science issue: E. M. Babosov, Nauchnotekhnicheskaia revolutsiia i modernizatsiia katolitsizma (Minsk, 1971 );
V. I. Garadzha, Neotomizm. Razum. Nauka. (M., 1969 );
M. P. Mchedlov, Katolitsizm (M., 1970 );
L. N. Mitrokhin, Protestantskaia kontseptsiia cheloveka (M., 1969 );
D. M. Ugrinovich, ‘Bezreligioznoe khristianstvo Bonheffera i ego prodolzhateli’, Vop. Fil., no. 2 (1968);
I. A. Kryvelev, Sovremennoe bogoslovie i nauka (M., 1959 );
Kryvelev, Religioznaia kartina mira i ego modernizatsiia (M., 1968);
N. S. Gordienko, Sovremennoe pravoslavie (M., 1968 );
Kurochkin, Evolutsiia sovremennogo pravoslaviia (M., 1971);
V. M. Ushakov, Pravoslavie i XX vek (Alma-Ata, 1968 );
E. F. Grekulov, Pravoslavnaia tserkov’ — vrag prosveshcheniia (M., 1967 );
R. S. Prikhod’ko, Pravoslavie — vrag nauki i progressa (Kiev, 1962 );
V. L. Sal’nikov, Evolutsiia otnosheniia sovremennogo pravoslaviia k nauke (L., 1973 ).
V. A. Cherniak, Nauchnyi progress i religiia (Alma-Ata: ‘Nauka’ Kazakhskoi SSR, 1976) pp. 52–3.
Iosif Aronovich Kryvelev, Istoriia religii ( M.: Mysl’, v. II, 1976 ) pp. 114–20
and 128–32.
Ia. V. Minkiavichius, ‘Katolicheskaia teologiia i nauchno-tekhnicheskaia revolutsiia’, VNAt., no. 28 (1981) pp. 125–32.
Kryvelev, Istoriia, II, pp. 114–16; V. A. Molokov, Filosofzia sovremennogo pravoslaviia ( Minsk: Vysheisha shkola, 1968 ) p. 47.
Ibid, pp. 46–70; Vladimir Lossky, The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church ( Crestwood, N.Y.: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1976 ) passim.
I. A. Akchurin, ‘Neischerpaemost’ materii vglub’ i sovreninnaia fizika’, Vop. fil., no. 12 (1969) pp. 28–9.
Mark Popovsky, Zhizn’ i zhitie Voino-Yasenetskogo, arkhiepiskopa i khirurga (Paris: YMCA Press, 1979) passim.
E. K. Duluman, N. I. Kiriushko and P. L. Yarotsky, Nauchno–teknnicheskaia revolutsiia i formirovanie ateisticheskogo mirovozzreniia ( Kiev: Naukova dumka, 1980 ) pp. 55–7.
N. S. Muradei, ‘Problema ratsional’nogo i irratsional’nogo: antichnost’, srednevekov’e’, Voprosy filosofii, no. 9 (September 1982) pp. 107–16.
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Pospielovsky, D.V. (1988). Religion and Science. In: Soviet Studies on the Church and the Believer’s Response to Atheism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19357-8_3
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