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.

Carmody Grey is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University, UK

Introduction: 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