Wentzel van Huyssteen’s The Shaping of Rationality: Introduction and Translation (chapters 2 and 3) to Persian

Foundationalism and non-foundationalism are two main models of epistemology based on which both scientific and theological reflections may persue rationality. The former is related to modernism which nesseciates some foundations or self-evident bases for all other belifs in order to find universal and context-free truth. On the other hand, the latter, the main critical framework of postmodern thought, look at the knowledge as a social and in-process phenomenon emerging out of a network of contextual beliefs. But the absolutism of the former and relativism of the latter make an interdisciplinary dialogue of science and religion impossible. Wentzel van Huyssteen in The Shaping of Rationality: Toward Interdisciplinarity in Theology and Science seeks to give a remedy for this impasse. The author specifically in two chapters of the book (chapters 2 and 3), mainly disscusses challenges of the modern and postmodern rationality for theology and its dialogue with science, and introduces Postfoundationalism as a solution. The present research involves an article introducting the backgrounds and specifications of the three models, the consequene of each for theology and its dialoge with scientific reflections; followed by a translation of the two chapters to Persian. If this intermediate alternative succeeds to overcome the impasse? Dealing with this question is another concern of the introductory article.