Professor Bagheri's Theoretical Confrontation with Religious Science; Some Reflections

Professor Khosrow Bagheri is one of the few thinkers who have presented theoretical arguments about “religious science” and have fulfilled some measures for its being materialized, as well. My main goal here is to examine his treatment of the relevant theoretical arguments. I had previously presented an explication of his theory in a logical-philosophical manner and made some criticisms of it. In the present article, after briefly reviewing that explication and logical-philosophical criticism, I examine his arguments focusing on his method of interacting with the other thinkers, or in other words, I present a historical-sociological analysis of his position. It seems that although his theory has been presented more than ten years ago, the most important criticisms posed about the theory are still creditable, and the reason, I believe, is that Professor Bagheri has situated himself in a dilemma - “either my viewpoint or the other three rejected ones” - and examines each and every opinion from such a viewpoint, and so his opinion is no more vivid and has lost the opportunity to rest on the others’ analyses in order to mend its weaknesses.