Darf ein Christ (methodischer) Naturalist sein? Eine wissenschaftsphilosophische Besinnung

How should a Christian relate to the fact that modern sciences do not speak of God? To answer this question, the paper first recalls Barbour’s four options for encounter between religion and science (section 1), and reminds of the distinction between ontological and methodological naturalism (section 2). Having considered the reasons in favour of or against the two variants of naturalism (section 3), the paper shows what possibilities there are for answering the question whether a Christian may be a (methodological) naturalist (section 4). Finally, the paper discusses how these possibilities relate to Barbour's four options and argue in favour of a critical philosophy of science (section 5).