Part I: From Physics to Biology.- Chapter 1: From Physics to Semiotics.- Chapter 2: Is Life Essentially Semiosis? A Commentary.- Chapter 3: Life in the open air.- Chapter 4: Reflections on Life: Lessons from Evolutionary Biology with Insights from Sergius Bulgakov.- Chapter 5: Life in Terms of Nano-Biotechnologies.- Part II: Concepts of Life in Philosophy, Theology and Ethics.- Chapter 6: Life: an Ill-defined Relationship.- Chapter 7: Emergence, Realism, and the Good Life.- Chapter 8: Dust of the Ground and Breath of Life (Gen. 2:7): The notion of 'life' in ancient Israel and emergence theory.- Chapter 9: The Openness of Life: Personhood and Faith - An Infinitizer Approach.- Chapter 10: Respect for Life in the Age of Science.- Part III: The Hermeneutics of Life.- Chapter 11: Life and Consciousness: Is there a biological foundation for consciousness?.- Chapter 12: "To Research Living Beings, One Has to Participate in Life".- Chapter 13: Signs, Science, and Religion: A Biosemiotic Mediation.- Chapter 14: Persons Knowing Life: Theological Possibilities in Michael Polanyi's Philosophy.- Chapter 15: Life Beyond Critical Realism. Developing Huyssteen's Transversal Approach to the Science/Theology Dialogue.- Index.