The Importance (or Lack Thereof) of Interdisciplinarity in Theological Endeavor
Theology is a human science that seeks, through the illumination of the Holy Spirit, a deeper understanding of God, the supernatural, and the divine. It has its own methodology, being a distinct form of knowledge — and even disregarded as such with the advent of the Renaissance, mainly with the “positivism” of Auguste Comte.
Nevertheless, its importance cannot be diminished in relation to other sciences; on the contrary. The role it plays is active, both in society and in the ecclesial environment, aiming to bring solutions and improvements to all who are part of it.
Furthermore, through the opening of dialogue with various fields of knowledge, Theology enhances its broad function of praxis in the sectors of the social context, such as politics, economics, and so on.
However much it may be ridiculed in the postmodern era, Theology will always hold the title of queen of the sciences, for it studies, even if in a limited way, the knowledge of the infinite, who is the sovereign and inscrutable God, while all other sciences rest, in their entirety, on the experience exclusively of natural humanity, which is finite.
