Life in One Breath: Meditations on Science and Christology

In this collection of meditations, Lococo reflects on the meaning of freedom, creation, and beauty, addressing the meaning of each to science, and, when met with science's recurring silence, offers theology as another way in. As he revisits and revitalizes notions of transcendent truth, goodness, and beauty in an age that seems to have long given up on them, he unearths Catholicism's forgotten scholarly wisdom tradition, ultimately paying tribute to two of the greatest religious thinkers of the twentieth century. The author asks: How might Christianity reconcile the fruits of the knowledge of science with a fuller understanding of the meaning of becoming human?

Donald J. Lococo formerly taught in the Christianity and Culture Program at the University of Toronto, biology at the University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas, and biology and philosophy at St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York. He is the author of Toward a Theology of Science (2004).


Sean J. McGrath has published widely in the history of ideas and the philosophy of religion. He is a professor of philosophy at Memorial University of Newfoundland and an adjunct professor of religious studies at McGill University.