Contents

PART ONE: PROLEGOMENA

1. THE LEGITIMACY OF A SCIENTIFIC THEOLOGY -- pg.3

2. THE APPROACH TO BE ADOPTED -- pg.35

PART TWO: NATURE

3. THE CONSTRUCTION OF NATURE -- pg.81

4. THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF CREATION -- pg.135

5. IMPLICATIONS OF A CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF CREATION -- pg.193

6.THE PURPOSE AND PLACE OF NATURA THEOLOGY -- pg.241

MOVING ON: ANTICIPATING AN ENGAGEMENT WITH REALITY -- pg.307

Bibliography -- pg.309

Index -- pg.321

A Scientific Theology is a groundbreaking work of systematic theology in three volumes: Nature, Reality, and Theory.
Written by one of the world’s best-known theologians, these volumes together represent the most extended and systematic exploration of the relation between Christian theology and the natural sciences yet produced. Thoroughly ecumenical, this will be a significant work for Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, and evangelical readers. The work is marked throughout by a sustained and critical engagement with the history and philosophy of the natural sciences and by a passionate commitment to the legitimacy of theology as an academic discipline.
The first volume in the series sets out a vision for a "scientific theology,'’ in which the working assumptions of the natural sciences are critically appropriated as a theological resource. It then moves on to deal at considerable length with the crucially important question of the status of nature, which has rarely been given the serious consideration that it deserves. Responding sympathetically to the growing consensus that “nature" is a socially mediated concept, McGrath sets out an approach to nature that establishes it as a theologically legitimate notion, and he explores its positive and constructive role within a scientific theology.