typology In the introduction to The Sciences and Theology in the Twentieth Century, Peacocke lists a set of eight relationships that could fall upon a two-dimensional grid. This list is in part a survey of deliberations that occurred at the World Council of Churches Conference on "Faith, Science and the Future", Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1979. Science and theology are concerned with two distinct realms Reality is thought of as a duality, operating within the human world, in terms of natural/supernatural, spatio-temporal/the eternal, the order of nature/the realm of faith, the natural (or physical)/the historical, the physical-and-biological/mind-and-spirit. Science and theology are interacting approaches to the same reality Accuracy of this view is widely and strongly resisted among those who otherwise differ in their theologies Science and theology are two distinct non-interacting approaches to the same reality The idea that theology tries to answer the question why, while science tries to answer the question how Science and theology constitute two different language systems Each are two distinct "language games" whose logical pre-conditions can have no bearing upon each other according to late-Wittgensteinian theory Science and theology are generated by quite different attitudes (in their practitioners) the attitude of science is that of objectivity and logical neutrality; that of theology personal involvement and commitment. Science and theology are both subservient to their objects and can only be defined in relation to them Both are intellectual disciplines shaped by their object (nature or God) to which they direct their attention. Both include a confessional and a rational factor. Science and theology may be integrated Science generates a metaphysic in terms of which theology is then formulated For example, Alfred North Whitehead's metaphysics forms the basis of process theology See also Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford List of scholars on the relationship between religion and science Open theism Philosophical theology Religious naturalism Theological critical realism Theophysics References Footnotes Bibliography Further reading External links Arthur Peacocke some biographical notes on the Gifford Lectures website, with some background on the lectures: Theology for a Scientific Age (published in book form during 1993 ) Arthur Peacocke and Humanity's Place in Cosmic Evolution Society of Ordained Scientists article by him Daily Telegraph obituary 1924 births 2006 deaths 20th-century English Anglican priests Academics of the University of Birmingham Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford Alumni of the University of Birmingham Anglican lay readers Converts to Anglicanism from atheism or