The Account of Religious Science in " Geometry of Religious Knowledge" The investigation on the theory of Grand Ayatollah Javadi-Amoli

This article tries to criticize and investigate the beliefs supporting “geometry of religious knowledge” on the subjects of religion, science and the relation between religion and reason; in such scope, the tenet of religious science according to this attitude will be critically analyzed. The article is to discuss the following concerns: the In the study of beliefs related to religion issues such as the confusion between religious and existential affairs, contradiction of broad and expanded definition for religion and the encyclopedic characteristic of religion; in the study of beliefs related to science issues such as raw realism and its prerequisites; in the study of beliefs related to the relation between religion and reason issues such as making reason as to be obedient, the confusion between religious and existential affairs, the confusion between potential and actual reason, neglecting executive judgment of reason and the undisciplined geometry in which reason didn’t reach its appropriate position. On the issue of religious science the idea derived from the theory of “geometry of religious knowledge” has been criticized from the following aspects: passive feature and accepting the existing theories; suspension manner for specifying the exploration of reality; the danger of religious dogmatism in opposing scientific discoveries; tendency toward Fiqh and mixing the logic of Mukallaf (the one who is responsible and accountable for Islamic obligations) with the realistic logic of scientific atmosphere; and simplifying the islamization of university and teaching resources. According to the problems in “geometry of religious knowledge”, a substitution is proposed: instead of regarding reason and narrated tradition 3Vol. 15 - no. 69- winter 2014 as two wings for flying religion and religious knowledge, it must be considered that reason and religion, with relative independence, are two wings of human being for flying which have Interference in the root and interaction in margins.