John Charlton Polkinghorne KBE FRS (16 October 1930 – 9 March 2021) was an English theoretical physicist, theologian, and Anglican priest. A prominent...
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Polkinghorne is a Cornish-language surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adam Polkinghorne (born 1975), cricketer Clare Polkinghorne (born...
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Death of Pauline Hanna (section Philip Polkinghorne)
husband, Philip Polkinghorne, on 5 April 2021. The circumstances of her death attracted significant media attention after Polkinghorne was accused of murdering...
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Atheism. The view of particle physicist and theologian John Polkinghorne is somewhat similar. Polkinghorne argues that an apparently simple event like boiling...
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" Other definitions are used by other authors. For example, what John Polkinghorne terms 'conceptual' or 'epistemological' reductionism is the definition...
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panentheism of open theism, Keith Ward's comparative theology and John Polkinghorne's critical realism (2009), Raymond Potgieter observes distinctions...
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post-nominal letters. For example, the Reverend John Polkinghorne, KBE would never be referred to as Sir John Polkinghorne. Clergy of other denominations may use...
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(2010). Omniscience and the Rhetoric of Reason. Wisdom Publications. John Polkinghorne, Science and Theology SPCK/Fortress Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8006-3153-6...
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is the only substance. Particle physicist and Anglican theologian John Polkinghorne objects to what he calls promissory materialism—claims that materialistic...
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John E. Murdoch Nancey Murphy Basarab Nicolescu Massimo Pigliucci John Polkinghorne Stathis Psillos Hilary Putnam Benedict Rattigan Alexander Rosenberg...
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John Herschel, James Inman, J. E. Littlewood, Lee Hsien Loong, Jayant Narlikar, Morris Pell, John Polkinghorne, Frank Ramsey, Lord Rayleigh (John Strutt)...
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Paul Dirac (category Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge)
his many students were Homi J. Bhabha, Fred Hoyle, John Polkinghorne and Freeman Dyson. Polkinghorne recalls that Dirac "was once asked what was his fundamental...
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Archived from the original on 2019-09-25. Retrieved 2019-09-25. Cottingham, John. "Descartes, René," in Honderich, Ted. Oxford Companion to Philosophy (Oxford...
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Francis Collins Exploring Reality (2006) by John Polkinghorne God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? (2007) by John Lennox Was Jesus God? (2008) by Richard...
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question of the God Gene could be answered by experimental studies. John Polkinghorne, a theoretical physicist and Anglican priest, member of the Royal...
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theologians calling themselves critical realists. This community includes John Polkinghorne, Ian Barbour, and Arthur Peacocke. The aim of the group is to show...
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"Closer to Truth: Episodes Season 21". TV Guide. Retrieved 2023-10-11. "John Iversen Official Website". Official website Closer to Truth at IMDb Closer...
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Reason and Reality: The Relationship Between Science and Theology by John Polkinghorne. The EP was later re-packaged as part of the Lazy Line Painter Jane...
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experiment at Fermilab, which looked at kaons, and Vivian O'Dell; Rev John Polkinghorne, former professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Cambridge...
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"Holistic Cosmology," Science 277: 644. John Polkinghorne and Nicholas Beale (2009) Questions of Truth. Westminster John Knox: 106-111. Hessels, Jason; Roberts...
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Freeman Dyson (redirect from Freeman John Dyson)
example, in reviewing The God of Hope and the End of the World by John Polkinghorne, Dyson wrote: I am myself a Christian, a member of a community that...
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Parker Sir John Pethica John Polkinghorne Sir Colin Rimer Graham Ross Russell Walter Scott Peter Sever Sir Peregrine Simon Sir Derek Thomas John Thomas,...
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a variety of scholars, including Arthur Peacocke, John Polkinghorne, Sallie McFague, and Robert John Russell. His subjective / objective approach is prominent...
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The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy edited by John Marenbon (2012), p. 529. John Polkinghorne (2011). Science and Religion in Quest of Truth, p....
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Theology: An Introduction is a 1998 book written by the English physicist, theologian, and Anglican priest John Polkinghorne. Anglican Journal v t e v t e...
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writer and film director Con O'Neill: actor John Oldmixon (1673–1742): historian; born in Oldmixon John Polkinghorne: particle physicist and theologian Hans...
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arguments put into print by an intelligent professional scientist". John Polkinghorne described Tipler as having "extreme reductionism" and building a "cosmic...
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engagements he said that he had taken a class in quantum mechanics under John Polkinghorne and while a visiting scholar at Cambridge had heard Stephen Hawking...
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John Leonard Eatwell, Baron Eatwell, (born 2 February 1945) is a British economist who was President of Queens' College, Cambridge, from 1996 to 2020....
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Musings. Patheos. Retrieved 5 December 2019. Williams, Stephen (2018). "John Polkinghorne on the Doctrine of Creation". Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological...
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