Science and Christian Belief: Theological Reflections of a Bottom-up Thinker

by John Polkinghorne

Publisher:

SPCK

, 1994

Overview

John Polkinghorne has become widely known for his elegant and well-informed contributions to our understanding of the relationship between scientific thought and religious faith. Science and Christian Belief is his most important book to date. It is the first attempt to apply scientific habits of thought to the core of Christian belief, to examine in turn the central tenets of the creeds in light of a thoroughly modern worldview. The result is a fascinating and intellectually compelling new presentation of orthodox Christianity—but then, as Polkinghorne writes in his Introduction, “a scientist would expect a fundamental theory to be tough, surprising, and exciting.”

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Key Features

• Speaks of God and creation in the light of contemporary understanding
• Discusses how science can benefit faith, rather than water it down
• Encourages readers to be “sincere lovers of and earnest inquirers after truth”

Contents

• Humanity
• Knowledge
• Divinity
• Creation
• Jesus
• Crucifixion and Resurrection
• Son of God
• The Spirit and the Church
• Eschatology
• Alternatives

Product Details

• Title: Science and Christian Belief: Theological Reflections of a Bottom-up Thinker
• Author: John Polkinghorne
• Publisher: SPCK
• Publication Date: 1994
• Pages: 224

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.