It is when she begins spelling out how it is that they interact and where theology fits in the hierarchy of sciences that I begin to squirm as a humanist. It is this new more dynamic scientific model that Murphy reconciles with her theology. Theology is different from the other sciences, comparable to the way the other sciences differ from each other, but nevertheless stands in some continuity with the hierarchy as it goes up to ever more general categories of subject matter. . . . It is at this point that I have my greatest difficulty with Murphy's intriguing proposal. There is no place in her system for the humanistic approach to theology. . . .
Theology is placed within the sphere of the sciences rather than the arts.
These are the very questions theology addresses. From my vantage point, this is theologically the most interesting part of her proposal. God and the cosmos is on the side of the prey rather than the predator. It is precisely at this point that I don't think the model works. Nature is simply too ambiguous on this question.