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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Theology
The book examines the wide panorama of Russian theological
reflection found in a variety of sources-ecclesiastical books,
sermons, literature, poetry, theater, historical treatises,
scholarly works, and free translations of theology books. It
presents not only the reflections of authors who remained in the
framework of the official Orthodox theology, but also dissenters,
primarily Old Believers and masons, who often sought to infuse
Orthodox Christianity with a more personal approach.
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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