The theology and psychology “conversation” is currently constrained by a series of seemingly intractable difficulties, ranging from competing methodological commitments to assumptions about theological projects not being vulnerable to empirical verification or falsifiability. This article suggests that a thoroughgoing experimental theology has the capacity to move beyond a conversational paradigm in ways that current approaches simply do not allow, especially as it concerns an interdisciplinary understanding of what it means to be human. It suggests that Experimental Theology (ET) conceives of “conversation” only as a starting point for interdisciplinary projects; grounds theological theories empirically; and advances both psychological and theological research in new and substantive ways, and toward new ends.

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实验神学：神学人类学和心理科学

神学和心理学的“对话”目前受到一系列看似难以解决的困难的限制，从相互竞争的方法论承诺到关于神学项目不易受到经验验证或可证伪性的假设。这篇文章表明，彻底的实验神学有能力以当前方法根本不允许的方式超越对话范式，特别是因为它涉及对人类意味着什么的跨学科理解。它表明实验神学（ET）认为“对话”只是跨学科项目的起点；以经验为基础的神学理论；并以新的实质性方式推进心理学和神学研究，并朝着新的目标迈进。