“Judith L. Corey’s Light from Light makes a substantial, even revolutionary, contribution to our understanding of the relationship between natural philosophy and theology from antiquity to the present. The real story, per Corey, is not the opposition of religious and scientific world views but the contrast between mechanistic and dynamic understandings of matter in both scientific and religious traditions. In their treatment of matter, Corey argues, the strengths and limitations of competing cosmologies are revealed. As mechanistic and dualistic worldviews reveal their shortcomings, Corey provides an expert overview of an alternative tradition that finds the potential for creation and transcendence in the very matter of which we and the world are made.”