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. He was born 16th Oct 1930 in Weston-super-Mare,
England, and was married to Ruth until she died in 2006. They have
three children (Peter, Isobel and Michael). He was at school at
Elmhurst Grammar School, Street, Somerset and his distinguished career
as a Physicist began at Trinity College Cambridge where he studied
under Dirac and Abdus Salaam and others. He received his MA in 1956,
was elected a Fellow of Trinity in 1954, and gained his PhD in 1955. In
1956 he was appointed a Lecturer in Mathematical Physics at Edinburgh:
returning to Cambridge as a Lecturer in 1958, promoted to Reader in
1965 and Professor in 1968. In 1974 he was elected FRS in and awarded
an ScD by Cambridge. During this time he published many papers on
theoretical elementary particle physics in learned journals, and 2
technical scientific books, The Analytic S-Matrix (CUP 1966, jointly
with RJ Eden, PV Landshoff and DI Olive) and Models of High Energy
Processes (CUP 1980).

In 1979 he resigned his Professorship to train for the Anglican
Priesthood, studying at Westcott House, He was ordained Deacon in 1981
and served as Curate in Cambridge (St Andrew's Chesterton 1981-82) and
Bristol (St Michael and All Angels, Bedminster 1982-84) and was Vicar
of Blean (near Canterbury) from 1984-86. He was appointed an Honorary
Professor of Physics at the University of Kent in 1984. In 1986 he was
appointed Fellow, Dean and Chaplain Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and in
1989 ("you could have knocked me over with a feather" was his comment)
he was appointed President of Queens' College, from which he retired in
1996. He was appointed KBE (Knight Commander of the order of the
British Empire) in 1997.

He was Chairman of the Science, Medicine and Technology Committee of
the Church of England's Board of Social Responsibility, of the Advisory
Committee on Genetic Testing (96-99) and of the publications committee
of SPCK. He chaired the joint working party on Cloning of the Human
Genetics Advisory Commission and the Human Fertlisation and Embryology
Authority He served on the General Synod (90-00) and the Doctrine
Commission (89-95) of the Church of England, and on the Medical Ethics
Committee of the British Medical Association (89-98)

During the same period he has published a series of books exploring and
developing aspects of the compatibility of religion and science. These
began with The Way the World Is ("What I would like to have said to my
scientific colleagues who couldn't understand why I was being
ordained"), and continued in a trilogy published by the SPCK: One
World, Science and Creation, and Science and Providence. He has
continued to produce a superb series of books (See a full list of
titles by John Polkinghorne).

He was awarded the Templeton Prize for Science and Religion in 2002 and
also in that year became the Founding President of the International
Society for Science and Religion.

He has Hon DDs from the Universities of Kent (1994) and Durham (1999),
Hon DScs from the Universities of Exeter (1994) Leicester (1995) and
Marquette (2003) and an hon D.Hum. (Hong Kong Baptist University,
2006). He is an Hon Fellow of St Chad's College, Durham (1999) and of
St Edmund's College, Cambridge (2002) and Trinity Hall (1989)

He was Canon Theologian of Liverpool Cathedral 1994-2005 and Six
Preacher, Canterbury Cathedral 1996-7

He was awarded a von Humboldt Foundation Award in 199?

He was Chairman of the Commitee on the use of Foetal Material
(1988-89), the Nuclear Physics Board (1978-79) of the Task Force to
Review Services for Drug Misusers (1994-96) and of the Governors of the
Perse School, Cambridge (1972-81).

John Polkinghorne is a respected scientist who is not afraid to ask
difficult questions about God's action in His creation. How can God act
in a world governed by scientific law? Are miracles possible? What
kinds of petitionary prayer can God reasonably be expected to answer?
These are the unacknowledged doubts which lurk in the minds of many
believing Christians. These are the kinds of questions clergy need to
be able to answer with educated assurance.

Dr.Polkinghorne believes that the universe is an "open" and "flexible"
system, where patterns can be seen to exist, but where "the
providential aspect cannot be ruled out." But, in fact, his own faith
has little to do with physics. It stems, instead, from a more personal
"encounter with Christ." When asked if his exacting scientific
background makes him scornful of the vagaries of theology, he responds:
"Far from it. Theology is much more difficult. Physics, at least at the
undergraduate level, is a subject on which the dust has settled. In
theology the dust never settles."

John Polkinghorne was one of the founders of the Society of Ordained
Scientists, a dispersed preaching Order of the Anglican Communion. The
major mover in the foundation of the Society was Arthur Peacocke from
Oxford. For those acquainted with the history of Anglicanism, the
differences between John and Arthur are illustrative of the roles
Cambridge and Oxford have played over the centuries. John compares
their approaches in his book Scientists as Theologians.

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