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PublisherBloomsbury Academic & Professional

ISBN-100567708535

ISBN-139780567708533

eBay Product ID (ePID)27062154713

Product Key Features

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameTheology, Science and Life

Publication Year2024

SubjectTheology, General, Christian Theology / Ethics

TypeTextbook

AuthorCarmody Grey

Subject AreaReligion

SeriesReligion and the University Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight13.6 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2022-027050

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"The question of life - the nature, meaning, and value of human and non-human life - is the most pressing of our time. Carmody Grey offers a potent challenge to any scientific monopoly over this question and opens up a compelling theological and philosophical exploration of life. This is a vital book." --Simon Oliver, Durham University, UK "With Theology, Science and Life , Carmody Grey has positioned herself at the forefront of the newly invigorated debates over the nature of life and the relation between theology, metaphysics and modern science as well as the effort to save organic life from the reductionism inherent in our established forms of analysis. I cannot recommend highly enough a close and careful reading of this rich and insightful book. It will transform the way one thinks about these vital questions and is destined to leave a lasting mark on the debate." --Michael Hanby, The Catholic University of America, USA, "The question of life - the nature, meaning, and value of human and non-human life - is the most pressing of our time. Carmody Grey offers a potent challenge to any scientific monopoly over this question and opens up a compelling theological and philosophical exploration of life. This is a vital book." --Simon Oliver, Durham University, UK "With Theology, Science and Life , Carmody Grey has positioned herself at the forefront of the newly invigorated debates over the nature of life and the relation between theology, metaphysics and modern science as well as the effort to save organic life from the reductionism inherent in our established forms of analysis. I cannot recommend highly enough a close and careful reading of this rich and insightful book. It will transform the way one thinks about these vital questions and is destined to leave a lasting mark on the debate." --Michael Hanby, The Catholic University of America, USA "Grey's book is convincing in its transparent and consequential presentation of the material and argumentation, and the inclusion of Hans Jonas is fruitful within the book's framework." -- Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences "The book's impressive clarity and originality are grounded in humility and provisionality. The task for theology remains to commit itself to interdisciplinary learning so that it might tell the right story about creatures and creation. Grey's achievement is to remind us that this was always its highest authority of all." -- Science & Christian Belief, "[Carmody Grey's] presentation of a new radically orthodox approach to science is as lucid as ether; her adjudicationof difficult issues never comes forward as contentious, and she argues her points clearly; her staging of a conversation between Hans Jonas's philosophy of life and Christiantheology proves to be incredibly generative for further thinking in this area." -- Anglican Theological Review "The question of life - the nature, meaning, and value of human and non-human life - is the most pressing of our time. Carmody Grey offers a potent challenge to any scientific monopoly over this question and opens up a compelling theological and philosophical exploration of life. This is a vital book." --Simon Oliver, Durham University, UK "With Theology, Science and Life , Carmody Grey has positioned herself at the forefront of the newly invigorated debates over the nature of life and the relation between theology, metaphysics and modern science as well as the effort to save organic life from the reductionism inherent in our established forms of analysis. I cannot recommend highly enough a close and careful reading of this rich and insightful book. It will transform the way one thinks about these vital questions and is destined to leave a lasting mark on the debate." --Michael Hanby, The Catholic University of America, USA "Grey's book is convincing in its transparent and consequential presentation of the material and argumentation, and the inclusion of Hans Jonas is fruitful within the book's framework." -- Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences "The book's impressive clarity and originality are grounded in humility and provisionality. The task for theology remains to commit itself to interdisciplinary learning so that it might tell the right story about creatures and creation. Grey's achievement is to remind us that this was always its highest authority of all." -- Science & Christian Belief

Dewey Decimal261.55

Table Of ContentIntroduction: Engaging With Milbank Part I: THEOLOGY Chapter 1: Refusing Confinement: The Nature of Theology Chapter 2: Theological Reason: The Story of Peace Part II: SCIENCE Chapter 3: Theology Alone is Science: Assessing Milbank Chapter 4: Legitima Autonomia ? Defining Theology's Mastery PART III: LIFE Chapter 5: Theology and Biology: The Meaning of 'Life' Chapter 6: Hans Jonas and the Testimony of Life Chapter 7: Life After All: A Theological Vitalism Conclusion: Biology Against Secular Reason Bibliography Index

SynopsisOffering 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., Explores the nature of theology and its relationship to other disciplines, with a particular focus on life science, and that all knowledge is intrinsically theological.

LC Classification NumberBL240.3.G746 2022