#Teodor M. Popescu

The article explores the relationship between science and faith, arguing that the scientist is not a creator but an interpreter of the divine work, drawing on examples from the history of scientific discovery and the thinking of Romanian scholars such as Dr Nicolae Paulescu, Dr Victor Gomoiu and Prof. Ilie Bădescu, as well as the Church Fathers, from Saint Basil the Great to the Thomism of Thomas Aquinas.

The text analyses the study The History of Christianity as Cultural History, published in 1927 by Professor Teodor M. Popescu upon his appointment to the Chair of Universal Church History at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Bucharest, and examines its contemporary relevance to the debate on the relationship between Christianity, culture and modernity. The philosophical foundations of the work — which draw on the ideas of Rickert, Windelband and Schleiermacher — are examined, alongside the thesis that Christianity, although not a cultural programme, has generated a civilisation that is defined in contrast to its religious origins, whilst remaining its constitutive source.