Christianity And The Rising Of Modern Science

Christianity and science are two ways of understanding the world of mankind. There are broad and complex contacts which is particularly manifested in the early stage of development of modern science between them.But this problem still has its reality, and still causes a lot of research and controversy. The traditional view is that the two have been in constant conflict, are inherently incompatible. And their position in the research, principles, methods, ideas are so fundamentally different. And modern science was born in Europe, which was the results of the reason replacing the superstition, science over religion, the resurrection of the spirit of ancient Greece reason. However, the major civilizations in the world, why only in the West, the Christian civilization was able to produce science in the modern sense? How did Christianity provide the necessary nutrients for the scientific understanding?In fact, fundamentally speaking, growing of modern science is induced and promoted by Christianity, which is not a reactionary force. Christianity and science are produced by the person's feelings, will, reason. So they were consistent in epistemology, methodology and so on. These commonality, consistency came together and made Christianity promote the development and prosperity of science. At the same time, it is undeniable that the economic development of Western Europe, the Renaissance, bourgeois political reform also contributed to the rising of modern science. Christianity was only one of many factors in the rise of modern science.