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Abstract
The Orthodox Church is uneasy about contemporary science.
What causes its uneasiness is not exclusively its slow reception of
modern culture. An important cause is the fact that contemporary
research sidelines ethical and spiritual criteria. The practical
application of scientific discoveries in the area of biotechnologies
provides abundant evidence for this. That said, progress is being made
in regard to the Orthodox appraisal of modern culture and contemporary
science and toward self‐assessment against current cultural trends. This
progress cannot make an impact, however, without an authenticating
framework. Fortunately, three documents of the Holy and Great Council of
the Orthodox Church provide an implicit framework for addressing
matters such as the Orthodox attitude toward science, especially biology
and its related branches, in light of theological anthropology and
traditional ethical and spiritual criteria. A shared particularity of
these documents is that they consider modern culture and scientific
research in a missional perspective.
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