Theology, Science and Life (Religion and the University) - Softcover

Grey, Carmody

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0567708535 ISBN 13: 9780567708533

Publisher: T&T Clark, 2024

Synopsis

Offering a bold intervention in the ongoing debate about the relationship between ‘theology’ and ‘science’, Theology, Science and Life proposes that the strong demarcation between the two spheres is unsustainable; theology occurs within and not outside what we call ‘science’, and ‘science’ occurs within and not outside theology. The book applies this in a penetrating way to the most topical, contentious and philosophically charged science of late modernity: biology. Rejecting the easy dualism of expressions such as ‘theology and science’, ‘theology or science’, modern biology is examined so as to illuminate the nature of both. In making this argument, the book achieves two further things. It is the first major English-language reception and application of the thought of philosopher Hans Jonas in theology, and it makes a decisive contribution to the unfolding reception of ‘Radical Orthodoxy’, one of the most influential schools in contemporary Anglophone theology.

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About the Author

Carmody Grey is Assistant Professor of Catholic Theology at Durham University, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0567708535
• ISBN 13: 9780567708533
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270