ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the dialogue between theology and the sciences as a social force with a considerable political dimension. It considers the basic intercultural theme of divine action and the sciences in relation to cosmology and evolutionary biology. Any serious discussion of divine action in an intercultural context must consider the impact of science on theories of divine action. The chapter focuses on the implications of the sciences and the dialogue between science and theology, and provides the different dimensions of this debate with reference to the physical sciences, to pure science and to applied science. Theology contributes the vision that the source of all that is God, and that all is sustained in being by a divine agent whose nature is creative, self-giving love. The cosmological debate raises acutely in scientific form the traditional theological inquiry concerning the nature of divine action.
