In Western society, there are many reasons why people are alienated from each other, one of which is that religion based on revelation is perceived by the materialistic mindset as an unreliable source of knowledge and as a distraction to the development of science. In practice, this perception of revela tion, especially Christian revelation, leads to alienation between believers and non-believers, since the latter regard the followers of revealed religion as unreasonable and stupid people with whom it is pointless to talk because they are said to live in untruth and obstruct the way of progress. However, in recent times there have been numerous attempts to make the Christian faith reasonable and senseful and to restore the lost dignity of believers and make them equal interlocutors in civil society. One such attempt is the Trinitarian natural theology of Alistair McGrath, a scientist and theologian who converted from atheism to Christianity. He conceived of Trinitarian natural theology as a search for a resonance between Christian doctrine and the findings of science, resulting in a conclusion about the reasonableness and sensefulness of the Christian faith. In this article, we argue that the established experience of resonance between faith and science is one way of bridging the alienation between believers and non-believers and establishing a resonant relationship between them since this is only possible if both interlocutors acknowledge the reasonableness and sensefulness of each other’s dialogical premises. The advantage of this method of establishing resonance is that scientific and theological theoretical knowledge is publicly available, which means that everyone can verify for himself the authenticity of the experience of resonance between science and Christian doctrine that McGrath speaks of, and thus take a step towards a greater resonance of the society in which we live.
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