Abstract
According to Hefner (Professor of Systematic Theology at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago and Editor-in-chief of Zygon) this work is "theological anthropology in the light of the natural sciences" and is designed to provide illumination for "a dangerous confusion in our times about values and the moral life" (p. xiii). He calls it a "conversation between theology and the sciences" (p. xiv), but it might be more accurately described as a scientific philosophy.