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This chapter surveys characteristics of theological engagement with science over the past half-century or so. I first argue for the importance of attention to natural science, grounding that argument in the work of Augustine and Aquinas. I then consider some recent history, stretching from the period when a discipline of “theology and natural science” was being forged within the academy, in the 1960s and 70s, through to the present. In work since the turn of this century, I point to a range of characteristics as often marking a mood of present work: the embedding of conversations between theologians and scientists within a broader web of interdisciplinary exchanges (not least as part of a shared interest in materiality and embodiment), an interest in metaphysics rather than epistemology as “first philosophy,” and a deeper grounding of theological perspectives in historical theological texts, particularly from the Patristic and mediaeval periods. Alongside recognition of the important contribution of historians, and the tendency to be focused today more on particular elements of science, rather than methodological questions about the relation between putative “science in general” and “theology in general,” I celebrate what I take to be recent, contemporary, and future directions for “theology and science.”
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