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	John Polkinghorne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Polkinghorne KBE, FRS (born October 16, 1930 Weston-super-Mare, England) is a British scientist and theologian.
		After a career in theoretical physics, as professor of mathematical physics in Cambridge University, in his late 40s Polkinghorne began studying for the Anglican ministry at Westcott House, Cambridge, and was ordained in the Church of England.
		He received a knighthood in 1997, and in 2002 was awarded the Templeton Prize for his contributions to research at the interface between science and religion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Polkinghorne (224 words)

	DIVINE ACTION: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN POLKINGHORNE
		A British scientist of similar belief is John Polkinghorne.
		Serving for twenty-five years as Professor of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge, Polkinghorne distinguished himself in the field of elementary particle physics and in 1974 was named as a Fellow of the Royal Society.
		Polkinghorne sets before himself the monumental task of exploring the Nicene Creed from the point of view of a scientist (i.e., a "bottom-up thinker").
	www.crosscurrents.org /polkinghorne.htm (4821 words)

	Belief in God in an Age of Science by John Polkinghorne
		Polkinghorne claims that much of what we do in science is "the creative interpretation of experience, not rigorous deduction from it." Science is not the search for truth but for "verisimilitude," the quality of having the appearance of truth or reality.
		Polkinghorne, good physicist that he is, wants to find a mechanism that is consistent with the laws of physics and not require blatant miracles.
		Polkinghorne claims he is not engaged in "an apologetic exercise, trying to make the faith appear acceptable in a scientific age.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/vic_stenger/polkrev.html (1894 words)

	Metanexus Institute
		What Polkinghorne calls "trinitarian thinking" (99-103) is precisely the apostolic witness that "arose primarily as a response to the insistent complexity of human encounter with the reality of God experienced within the growing life of the Church" (99-100).
		Polkinghorne retrieves the ancient Aristotelian and Thomistic idea of the soul as the form or pattern of the body, but subjects it to significant revisions insofar as the human soul is an "information-bearing pattern" (161) that is dynamically shaped by its embodiment, social relations, and environmental locatedness.
		While Polkinghorne is driven by scientific and theodicy considerations to revise the classical doctrine of God's exhaustive and definite foreknowledge of future events, a small group of North American evangelical theologians have recently proposed a similar "open theistic" view of divine omniscience largely through a retrieval and reinterpretation of the biblical text.
	www.metanexus.net /metanexus_online/show_article.asp?9285 (6626 words)

	Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities
		John C. Polkinghorne is a mathematical physicist and Anglican priest whose treatment of theology as a natural science invigorated the search for interface between science and religion and made him a leading figure in this emerging field.
		Dr. Polkinghorne resigned a prestigious position as Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Cambridge in 1979 to pursue theological studies, becoming a priest in 1982.
		Polkinghorne established himself in the world of mathematical physics when science was being revolutionized with discoveries about sub-atomic particles.
	www.templetonprize.org /bios_recent.html (4137 words)

	John Polkinghorne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Like most practising quantum physicists Polkinghorne is a robust realist (not accepting the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Theory) and his wife eventually gave him a T shirt with one of his favorite phrases on it: "Epistemology entails ontology".
		Polkinghorne recently became an ordained minister of the Anglican Church (Episcopalian) and has written extensively on the overlap between modern physics, philosophy and theology.
		Polkinghorne commented to me at CiC 2000: "The amusing thing is that Roger believes that everything he's ever worked on comes together to explain all these extremely difficult things.
	clublet.com /why?page=JohnPolkinghorne (213 words)

	-- Beliefnet.com
		John Polkinghorne made quite a splash in the world of science when, 20 years ago, he left his position as a professor of physics in the University of Cambridge to train for the Anglican priesthood.
		Today Polkinghorne is the sole ordained fellow of the Royal Society--Britain's equivalent of the National Academy of Sciences, and an institution that, in the 19th century, was composed mainly of clergy members.
		Polkinghorne's several books on the boundary between science and religion have been popular in Europe, although are not as well-known as they deserve in the United States, and his 1994 Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh are viewed as classics in that important series.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/61/story_6131_1.html (392 words)

	Speaking of Faith \| Quarks and Creation \| E-mail Newsletter
		I first heard John Polkinghorne’s voice on the BBC in the late 1980s, at a time when I lived in England.
		Polkinghorne spoke about reason and faith, science and prayer — subjects I was pondering deeply at that point, after a good decade in which I had dismissed religion and religious sentiments out of hand.
		John Polkinghorne is a leading figure in that movement.
	speakingoffaith.publicradio.org /programs/quarks/newsletter.shtml (722 words)

	AskWhy! John Polkinghorne: Gamekeeper Turned Poacher - God’s Truth or Pious Lies? Science or Religion? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Polkinghorne accepts that mystical experience is “the experience of unity with the ground of all being”, but he considers the “ground of all being” to be God when it is really the meta-organism that life is. Religious experience is that of the “unity of all being”.
		Polkinghorne knows this and his cryptic mention of quantum patterns is his get out, but he is defending the bishop in his new profession of theologian, and doing it by being dishonest and dishonourable to his old one.
		Polkinghorne is convinced that “conceptual reductionists” cannot tell a seal cub from a fur coat, and so he twitters on to his gaping readers about reductionist scientists not noticing that water is wet or that some crystals conduct while some do not.
	www.askwhy.co.uk /truth/330Polkinghorne.html (12422 words)

	UMPH - Review: Faith in the Living God by John Polkinghorne and Michael Welker
		John Polkinghorne, Anglican priest and mathematical physicist, and Michael Welker, systematic theologian and contemporary philosopher, write to challenge and rebut this assumption.
		Polkinghorne and Welker do more than proffer ‘old’ theology; they challenge us to think theologically of what it means to have faith in the living God.
		As they write, both Polkinghorne and Welker drop sufficient hints of both how and where they are putting their theology together as they also gently critique other theological schools.
	www.umph.org /resources/publications/review.asp?review_id=10 (705 words)

	Cornell News: Rev. John Polkinghorne lecture on science and religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Rev. John Polkinghorne, one of the foremost thinkers and writers on the correlation of science and religion, returns to Cornell University to deliver a Templeton-American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) Lecture titled "The Interaction of Science and Theology," Monday, April 26, at 8 p.m.
		A respected scientist turned respected Anglican priest, Polkinghorne worked for many years as a theoretical elementary particle physicist, mostly at the University of Cambridge, England, where he was professor of mathematical physics from 1968 to 1979.
		Polkinghorne's lecture is sponsored by the Templeton Foundation, the American Scientific Affiliation, Cornell United Religious Work and Chesterton House, a local Center for Christian Studies.
	www.news.cornell.edu /releases/April04/Polkinghorne.lect.fac.html (445 words)

	Science & Theology News - Science and the Trinity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The bottom line is that Polkinghorne makes a surprisingly convincing case that there is a valid relationship — and “bottom line” is a deliberating pun, since he assures his readers that he is both a “bottom-up” physicist and theologian.
		Polkinghorne observes that a religious view has something else to offer, that reason within our minds and the rational structure of the physical universe “have a common origin in the rationality of the God whose will is the ground of the existence of both our mental life and our common experience.”
		Polkinghorne goes on to relate his Trinitarian theology to a universe with a fruitful history (which invokes an understanding of the anthropic principle), a relational universe, a universe of veiled reality (both drawing on his deep familiarity with quantum mechanics), a universe of open process, and an information-generating universe.
	www.stnews.org /books-2645.htm (849 words)

	The God of Hope and the End of the World - John Polkinghorne
		Polkinghorne's objection, here and elsewhere, to any and all other ideas about what might become of man and the world and the universe is that they are so without hope.
		Polkinghorne is so enthralled with the image (and reputation) of his god that he feels perfectly comfortable proposing any sort of claim about him.
		Polkinghorne writes reasonably well, and pieces of his arguments -- restatements of scientific fact and of religious fancy -- are presented quite well.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/religion/polkingj.htm (2756 words)

	The New York Review of Books: Science & Religion: No Ends in Sight
		Sir John Polkinghorne is a well-known physicist who spent twenty years doing research in theoretical particle physics and then switched to theology.
		Polkinghorne was a participant in the project, and was invited to write this book after it was over.
		Polkinghorne's book is written for the general public, but it grew out of discussions with the author's theological colleagues who share his vocabulary and his way of thinking.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/15220 (3404 words)

	Amazon.de: Science and the Trinity: English Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Polkinghorne's intention was to draw together science and religion in a dialogue, letting theological issues provide the framework.
		Polkinghorne admits that this particularist stance is somewhat at odds with the aims of science: 'Scientists love generality, and they are often wary of particularity.' But for theological reasoning, one must be inside the circle, rather than outside; however, the scandal of particularity must be admitted.
		Polkinghorne does draw in elements of the history of science and theology and their often-troubled relationship, and shows something of the development of the way theological thinking since the Enlightenment.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0300104456 (705 words)

	The Spirit-Wrestler: An Interview with John Polkinghorne
		John Polkinghorne, a central figure in the dialogue between science and religion, takes on some of the toughest questions in that great debate creation, evolution, evil, goodness, and the meaning of life in this exclusive interview.
		Polkinghorne himself was recently involved in a rigorous confrontation with "the best thought of the other side" when he took on his good friend, Nobel physicist Steven Weinberg, in a celebrated debate last spring at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Washington, DC.
		John Polkinghorne is a fellow of the Royal Society, past president and present Fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge, and an ordained priest in the Anglican Church.
	www.science-spirit.org /article_detail.php?article_id=147 (2120 words)

	Anglican Priest, Father John Polkinghorne, Honored
		Father John Polkinghorne, a priest of our Church in England, has just been honored for his work as a scientist, who connects his work with religion.
		John C. Polkinghorne, a mathematical physicist who amazed his scientific colleagues more than 20 years ago by becoming an Anglican priest (Anglicans in the United States are called Episcopalians), has won the 2002 Templeton Prize, one of the world's most prestigious awards in the field of religion.
		Long associated with the University of Cambridge, Polkinghorne, aged 71, is a leading figure in attempting to bridge the worlds of science and religion.
	jmm.aaa.net.au /articles/4683.htm (175 words)

	FT May 2005: Books in Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Polkinghorne also differs from the other scientist-theologians he discusses in his view of the proper relation between theology and science.
		Polkinghorne embraces the fashionable idea that God does not know the future—either because it does not exist to be known, or because God deliberately chooses not to know it.
		Polkinghorne’s Trinitarian theology is not the traditional one, but in the end that may matter little.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0505/reviews/bar.html (1394 words)

	Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . PERSPECTIVES . Science and Theology . May 8, 1998 \| PBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sir John Polkinghorne is both a world-class physicist and an Anglican priest who says science can explain only part of what's real.
		ROBERTS: Sir John Polkinghorne is a British mathematical physicist knighted by the queen for his scientific achievements.
		Sir John sees differences between today's physicists and cosmologists who are trying to explain the origin of the universe and the biologists who are using new discoveries, such as the structure of genes, to explain the nature of life.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/religionandethics/week136/perspectives.html (1149 words)

	John C. Polkinghorne - Templeton Foundation Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		In 1997, Polkinghorne was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for distinguished service to science, religion, learning, and medical ethics.
	www.templetonpress.org /author_profiles_detail.asp?author_id=64 (132 words)

	Index~1
		Polkinghorne is a place name, Polkinghorne is situated just to the north of the village of Gwinear, a few miles east of Hayle in west Cornwall, the earliest documentary evidence of the name is in 1299 when Roger de Polkinghorne of Polkinghorne settled there and was granted Arms by Edward III.
		Polkinghorne Manor, Gwinear, still exists and can be found on the present day Ordnance Survey Maps, there is also a hamlet by the name of Polkinghorne in the Parish of Gulval, north of Penzance.
		Polkinghorne's can be found all over the world nowadays along with other "Cousin Jacks" and "Janes" who were forced to leave their native land mainly due to the sudden demise of the Copper and Tin mining industries in Cornwall in the mid 1800's.
	www.polycomp.demon.co.uk /ian/ian.html (519 words)

	An Unbeautiful Mind, by Simon Blackburn, professor of philosophy. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Polkinghorne's beam is the more surprising since he holds the belief that unless some things last forever, everything is futile, a "meaningless empire of accident." This would wipe the smile off the face of many scientists.
		Polkinghorne is a "critical realist" about science: he believes that the scientific method is adapted for discovering the truth, although its results are often provisional and in principle can be overturned by better theories to come.
		Polkinghorne's favorite fact is the minute adjustment of the various cosmological constants and magnitudes without which large atoms and molecules could not exist.
	www.polarbearandco.com /blackburn.html (4443 words)

	Rev. Dr John Polkinghorne KBE FRS \| Christianpost.com- Christian News Online , Christian World News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Rev Dr. John Polkinghorne KBE FRS, Cambridge University, England, is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow (and former President) of Queens' College,Cambridge and a Canon Theologian of Liverpool Cathedral.
		John Polkinghorne is a respected scientist who is not afraid to ask difficult questions about God's action in His creation.
		John Polkinghorne was one of the founders of the Society of Ordained Scientists, a dispersed preaching Order of the Anglican Communion.
	www.christianpost.com /article/ministries/32/full/rev.dr.john.polkinghorne.kbe.frs/1.htm (1100 words)

	New Physics, New Theology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Polkinghorne's Belief in God in an Age of Science, based on his Terry Lectures at Yale, explores the sweeping consequences of recent revolutions in science for the conflict between skepticism and faith.
		The West is entering a new chapter in its intellectual history, and John Polkinghorne is one of a handful of scientists who have already, so to speak, managed to read several pages ahead in the text.
		Polkinghorne offers a fascinating gloss on the question of free will and divine providence, noting that present-day physics — via quantum and chaos theories — has swept aside the old principle of determinism.
	www.catholiceducation.org /links/jump.cgi?ID=2513 (906 words)

	Templeton Prize Winner Sir John Polkinghorne to Lecture on Religion and Science \| College of the Holy Cross
		Sir John Polkinghorne, one of the world's greatest living writers and thinkers on religion and science and winner of the prestigious Templeton Prize, will deliver two public talks at Holy Cross, as part of the Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion and Modernity, during a rare speaking trip to the United States.
		Polkinghorne will spend several days at Holy Cross, arriving on Tuesday, October 5 and leaving on Friday, October 8.
		Polkinghorne has published a series of books exploring the interconnectedness of religion and science.
	www.holycross.edu /publicaffairs/features/2004-2005/polkinghorne (436 words)

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