Table of Contents

Preface to the 2006 Edition / ix

Acknowledgments / xv

Introduction / 3

1. Natural Theology / 7

2. Insightful Inquiry / 25

3. Order and Disorder / 44

4. Creation and Creator / 63

5. The Nature of Reality / 83

6. Theological Science / 101

Notes / 119

Bibliography / 129

Index / 133

About the Author

John C. Polkinghorne is an Anglican priest, past president of Queens' College, Cambridge University, and former professor of mathematical physics at Cambridge. Polkinghorne resigned his chair in physics to study for the Anglican priesthood. After completing his theological studies and serving at parishes, he returned to Cambridge. He is the author of a series of books on the compatibility of religion and science. These include One World, Science and Creation, Science and Providence, and The Faith of a Physicist. In 1997 Dr. Polkinghorne was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for distinguished service to science, religion, learning, and medical ethics. He was the recipient of the 2002 Templeton Prize.

Reviews

"For far too long the science-religion debate has been dominated—even clouded—by questions of biological evolution thrown up in the nineteenth century, while the transformation of the physical world in the twentieth has often seemed strangely irrelevant. This book epitomizes a welcome trend to redress the balance. . . . [It] is to be warmly recommended to all who seek to enrich the dialogue between science and theology." – C. A. Russell, Science Christian Belief