Rev Dr. John Polkinghorne Talk and Interview

6th March 2008

 Lecture given by Rev Dr. John Polkinghorne - right click and choose 'save target as' to download

Interview of Rev Dr. John Polkinghorne - right click and choose 'save target as' to download

Biography:  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. John Polkinghorne studied Physics at Trinity College Cambridge 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 1979 he resigned his Professorship to train for the Anglican Priesthood, studying at Westcott House, He was ordained Deacon in 1981. 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 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. 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 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.

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