The Theological Foundations of Progress

To explain the theological foundations of progress this article is to analyze its five important foundations. The first foundation is religious study foundation, which surveys that the progress is compatible with the theory of "the correlation between religion and the world" not with the secular theory. The second foundation is theology that referring to the absolute ownership of God over the whole existence emphasizes that the world is divine trust for human; and God must explain us how to use it. Third foundation is ontological which highlights that religious progress is different with the nonreligious progress, regarding the special attitude of religious worldview toward the existence such as managing the world with the causality system and spiritual factors. Anthropology is the fourth fundamental principle that proves the necessity of progress regarding the relationship and dependency of human to economy and progress in the dimensions such as intellect, religion, human dignity, and responsibility. The last foundation is sociological that emphasizes and explains respecting individual and society's rights, originality of society's rights on the individual, and governance of human on his society. The innovation of this article is proving the necessity of religious government's attention to requisiteness of the progress of the individuals and the society in different scopes such as economics and natural sciences, which is proved in this article with the theological foundations. It is remarked that the necessity of considering religion as to be two-dimensional is the fact that any delinquency in progress is against the religious teachings and considers as a sinful act.