Theology, Science and Life
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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. Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication and Acknowledgements Contents Introduction Engaging John Milbank Part I: Theology Chapter 1: Refusing confinement: The nature of theology Milbank’s conception of theology: An overview Theology’s critique of the disciplines The critique of social science Against the circumscription of reason Explanation in ‘social’ and ‘natural’ science ‘Nature’ and ‘culture’ Nature according to Milbank Theology is a biology: Reclaiming ‘life’ Chapter 2: Theological reason: The story of peace Theological reason: Narrating peace The place of philosophy Against dialectics Peace and poesis Metaphysics Concluding Part I: Peace is the truth Part II: Science Chapter 3: Theology alone is science: Assessing Milbank Disruption and making strange How to argue with Milbank: Methodology revisited Theology and the disciplines: Sharpening the question A theocratic agenda? Milbank’s agenda for peaceful difference A necessary overcoming The status of ‘scientific’ knowledge Poesis revisited Conjecture and theurgy Reference and accountability An elevation of science Chapter 4: Legitima autonomia? Defining theology’s mastery Enabling the difference of the sciences Theology within science Hanby and Milbank compared: Theology saving science Hanby: The rational superiority of a metaphysics of form Reason: Universal and objective, or narratively specified? How suspended is reason? Putting mythos before logos Theology is not a discipline: Theology and the disciplines revisited Concluding Part II: Hospitality and prophecy Part III: Life Chapter 5: Theology and biology: The meaning of ‘life’ Defining a vitalist agenda Considering life Milbank on life Vitalism: Key themes Theological vitalism Chapter 6: Hans Jonas and the testimony of life Biology as theology The argument for vitalism Recovering nature Life: The therapy for nihilism Primitive panvitalism Modernity’s ontology of death The living body: Prophetic for ontology The legitimacy of anthropomorphism Turning the tables: Darwinism as vitalism Metabolism: The biology of freedom Chapter 7: Life after all: A theological vitalism Jonas as vitalist Jonas’s vitalism and Christian theology A metaphysics of form Refusing death and conflict Naming ‘natural evil’ Concluding Part III: Biology against secular reason Conclusion: Theology, science and life Bibliography Index
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