From Physicist to Priest: An Autobiography

by John Polkinghorne

Publisher:

SPCK

, 2007

Overview

From Physicist to Priest is an autobiography from well-known author, John Polkinghorne, with a unique perspective arising from his roles as both a theologian and a physicist. It tells the story of his journeys into both disciplines from a human angle, including the formative experiences and key relationships he experienced as a child, an undergraduate, graduate, and beyond into university teaching, priesthood, and writing. He describes his developing thoughts and understanding of the value and interdependence of each of the major disciplines and, by so doing, brings a human touch to the big questions that each approach raises.

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Key Features

• Provides equal seriousness to the insights of science, nature, and history of the universe, along with the deeper insights of the Christian faith
• Illustrates how science and religion can exist harmoniously in a single life
• Explores the life of John Polkinghorne, his insight and variety of experience

Contents

• Beginnings
• Military Interlude
• Undergraduate
• Research Student
• Caltech
• University Teacher
• Family
• Scientific Career
• Change
• Westcott
• Curate
• Vicar
• Trinity Hall
• Queen’s College
• Theological Writing
• Committees
• Retirement

Product Details

• Title: From Physicist to Priest: An Autobiography
• Author: John Polkinghorne
• Publisher: SPCK
• Publication Date: 2007
• Pages: 182

About John Polkinghorne

Rev Dr. John Polkinghorne (1930-2021) was a distinguished physicist who 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.