摘要：The relationship between religion or theology with secular knowledge has already been
resolved several centuries ago by many great religious thinkers, especially those who belong to
liberal Protestantism, reformed evangelical Protestant tradition like Harry Emerson Fosdick,
Tillich, Reinhold Niebuhr, H. Richard Niebuhr, Brunner, Barth and even those who belong to
Roman Catholicism such as Aquinas, Teilhard Pierre de Chardin, Hans Kung, etc. However, for
many of both religious and secular minded people, the relationship between religion and
theology with secular knowledge has not yet been resolved. This is also the concrete fact in
evangelical Protestant colleges and universities in the Philippines. We can observe that there are
still some students and teachers who think that religion must constantly conflict with science.
The example is the disagreement between creation story in the Bible and Charles Darwin¡¯s
theory of human evolution or the tension between creationism and evolutionism. Few years back,
some of our Filipino politicians opposed the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) hierarchy¡¯s attack
on divorce bill because the bill itself is a legal concern while the church concern must only focus
on spiritual matters. Also, some of our congressmen asserted that the RCC hierarchy should not
interfere in the passing of divorce bill because there is a constitutional separation between church
and state. The congressmen¡¯s criticism on Church hierarchy implies that spirituality has nothing
to do with legal or political matters. On the other hand, spirituality in a common sense is being
expected or used only to legitimize ¨C but not to criticize ¨C the social order.
