Ma`rifat Farhangi Ejtemaei

Resting on the position taken in determining the relationship between science and religion, the approaches to religious science are divided into purificative and institutional. The institutional approaches include fundamentalists and ultra-fundamentalists. Fundamentalism includes inferential theories, method philosophy and correlation philosophy. Although the initial impression suggests that there are serious conflicts among these approaches, deeper meditation on the subject shows that they share common motives and follow the main pivots of religious science within the framework of a relatively common logic. The aim of this study is to review the way of resolving the conflicts and possibility of overcoming the shortcoming and weaknesses in each of these approaches via the strengths devised in another. To this end, the discussions are centered on analyzing the nature, infrastructures and methodology of science in each approach. Finally, it is evident that the approach to method philosophy faces the problem of relativity, and the theory of combined philosophy has the capacity to resolve the concern of other approaches.