All That Is

During the last year of his life, Arthur Peacocke worked to formulate a final comprehensive statement of his proposal for reconciling religious faith and the results of the sciences today. Strikingly frank about the need for Christian theologians and religious persons generally to face the dramatic impasse between religion and the naturalistic assumptions of contemporary science, Peacocke formulated a "theistic naturalism" that harmonizes core theological commitments with the science-based worldview of evolution and emergence. His groundbreaking "Essay in Interpretation," which sketches the interrelations between God, nature, and humanity, will prove a nascent classic in the field and a touchstone for further reflection. Ten leading thinkers were invited to respond to Peacocke's new proposal. Led by editor Philip Clayton, they include: Donald M. Braxton, Willem B. Drees. Philip Hefner, Christopher C. Knight, Nancey Murphy, Ann Pederson, Karl E. Peters, Robert John Russell, and Keith Ward. In the last weeks and months of his life, Peacocke drew together a final set of reflections and replies to their chapters. Peacocke's "Nunc Dimittis," his personal theological reflections in the days before his death, completes this volume.