Books written by John Polkinghorne

Faith in the Living God, 2nd Edition: A Dialogue

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On Space and Time

(ii) Big-Bang nucleosynthesis In the 1940s Russian physicist George Gamow, and later in 1957 Geoffrey and Margaret Burbidge, William Fowler and Fred Hoyle, developed the idea that if the Universe had been smaller in the past any ...
Science and the Trinity: The Christian Encounter with Reality

I am grateful to the Seminary and its President, Thomas Gillespie, for the invitation to give the lectures and for generous hospitality received while doing so. I have also benefited from a number of helpful comments made to me by staff ...
Belief in God in an Age of Science

In this thought-provoking book, the author focuses on the collegiality between science and theology, contending that these "intellectual cousins" are both concerned with interpreted experience and with the quest for truth about reality.
Quantum Theory: A Very Short Introduction

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Meaning in Mathematics

This book is intended to fill a gap between popular 'wonders of mathematics' books and the technical writings of the philosophers of mathematics.
The God of Hope and the End of the World

John Polkinghorne carefully builds a structure of the hope of the life to come that involves both continuity and discontinuity with life in this world—enough continuity so that it is we ourselves who shall live again in that future world ...
Theology in the Context of Science

In his latest book, physicist-theologian John Polkinghorne, renowned as one of the world's foremost thinkers on science and religion, offers a lucid argument for developing the intersection of the two fields as another form of contextual ...
Questions of Truth: Fifty-one Responses to Questions about God, Science, and Belief

... and the future of physiology Experimental Physiology (2008) arXiv expphysiol.2007.038695v1) and it is also a viewpoint espoused by Murphy and Brown in Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? and the many authors cited by them in this context.
Faith, Science and Understanding

divdivIn this captivating book, one of the most highly regarded scientist-theologians of our time explores aspects of the interaction of science and theology.
Quantum Theory: A Very Short Introduction

In simple language, without mathematics, this book explains the strange and exciting ideas that make the subatomic world so different from the world of the every day.
Science and Religion in Quest of Truth

Each chapter also provides references to his other books in which more detailed treatments of specific issues can be found.For those who are new to what Polkinghorne calls "one of the most significant interdisciplinary interactions of our ...
Beyond Science: The Wider Human Context

Beneath the superficially egalitarian style of much of scientific society , the elite are accorded an intrinsic respect . As persons they are the focus of interest , and stories circulate about them . These tales are neither awe struck ...
Meaning in Mathematics

This book is intended to fill a gap between popular 'wonders of mathematics' books and the technical writings of the philosophers of mathematics.
Meaning in Mathematics

He then adds, parenthetically that 'sentences of pure mathematics are plausible candidates for' this second status, ... passage: Philosophy is written in this grand book—I mean the Universe—which stands continually open to our gaze, ...
The End of the World and the Ends of God: Science and Theology on Eschatology

... Eliot says in the first of his Four Quartets , " Burnt Norton , " in my beginning is my end and , in my end is my beginning . Eliot speaks of a darkness into which we must enter in order to experience history . Otherwise reconciliation ...
The Trinity and an Entangled World: Relationality in Physical Science and Theology

Besides containing insights from both expert scientists and theologians, The Trinity and an Entangled World considers the way in which these parallel insights can contribute to a harmonious dialogue between science and religion.
Science and Religion in Quest of Truth

DIVFrom the vantage point of eighty years, a highly regarded scientist and theologian surveys the full spectrum of critical issues between science and theology/div
Serious Talk: Science and Religion in Dialogue

Polkinghorne argues that the habits of thought that are natural to the scientist are the same habits of thought that can be followed also in the search for a wider and deeper kind of truth about the world.