ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses that the assumptions of modernity have had a great deal to do with the compartmentalization of science and theology, and suggests that in the postmodern era it may be time to reassess this long-standing separation. One common objection to the claim that religious experience provides evidence for the truth of religious beliefs is that religious experience is essentially private and subjective. It is contrasted with data for science, which are public and replicable and, in that sense, objective. Scientists face a problem analogous to the circularity problem in using their own sort of data to support scientific theories. The chapter claims that there are striking formal analogies between scientific and theological reasoning. It presents two objections to the use of religious experience as evidence for religious beliefs: the subjectivity problem and the circularity problem.
