John Polkinghorne

John Polkinghorne

Rev Dr. John Polkinghorne is a distinguished physicist who has spent recent decades studying and writing about the relationship between science and faith. His physics career began at Cambridge where he studied under the legendary quantum pioneer P.A.M. Dirac and others, and he worked for 25 years in the field of theoretical elementary particle physics as a professor at Cambridge. He resigned his professorship in 1979 and became an Anglican priest, and since then has become a leading spokesman for the faith among serious scientists. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974, and was appointed KBE (Knight Commander of the order of the British Empire) in 1997.

Books

• Exploring Reality : The Intertwining of Science and Religion (2006) (ISBN 0300110146)
• The Faith of a Physicist: Reflections of a Bottom-Up Thinker (1996) (ISBN 0800629701)
• Science and the Trinity : The Christian Encounter with Reality (2004) (ISBN 0300104456)
• Quarks Chaos & Christianity : Questions to Science and Religion (1995) (ISBN 0824515218)
• Quantum Theory, A Very Short Introduction (2002) (ISBN 0192802526)
• Belief in God in an Age of Science (2003) (ISBN 0300099495)
• The Work of Love: Creation as Kenosis (2001) (ISBN 0802848850)
• Living With Hope: A Scientist Looks at Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany (2003) (ISBN 066422749X)
• The End of the World and the Ends of God: Science and Theology on Eschatology (Theology for the Twenty-First Century) (2000) (ISBN 1563383128)
• Faith, Science and Understanding (2001) (ISBN 0300091281)
• The God of Hope and the End of the World (2003) (ISBN 0300098553)
• Science and Creation (1989) (ISBN 0877734925)
• Serious Talk: Science and Religion in Dialogue (1995) (ISBN 1563381095)
• Reason and Reality: The Relationship Between Science and Theology (1991) (ISBN 1563380196)
• Beyond Science : The Wider Human Context (1996) (ISBN 0521572126)
• Faith in the Living God: A Dialogue (2001) (ISBN 0800634349)
• Knowledge and Understanding : Themes in the Study of Science and Theology (2000) (ISBN 0281052638)
• Scientists as Theologians (1996) (ISBN 0281049459)
• Quarks, Chaos and Christianity : Questions to Science and Christianity (1994) (ISBN 0281047790)
• Science and Providence : God's Interaction with the World (1989) (ISBN 0281043981)
• One World : The Interaction of Science and Theology (1987) (ISBN 0691024073)

External links

• "Official" John Polkinghorne site
• "The Dick Staub Interview: John Polkinghorne," Christianity Today, November, 2002