John Polkinghorne

John Polkinghorne
John Polkinghorne
Polkinghorne em 2007
Nascimento 16 de outubro de 1930
Weston-super-Mare, Inglaterra
Morte 9 de março de 2021 (90 anos)
Cambridge, Inglaterra
Nacionalidade Britânico
Prêmios Prêmio Templeton
Campo(s) Física

John Charlton Polkinghorne (Weston-super-Mare, 16 de outubro de 1930 - Cambridge, 9 de março de 2021) foi um físico, teólogo e sacerdote anglicano inglês.

Carreira

Foi um proeminente e voz de liderança na explanação da relação entre religião e ciência, foi professor de física matemática na Universidade de Cambridge de 1968 a 1979, quando abdicou de sua cátedra para estudar para o sacerdócio, ordenado sacerdote Igreja Anglicana em 1982. Foi presidente do Queens' College (Cambridge), de 1988 a 1996.

Polkinghorne é autor de cinco livros sobre física, e 26 sobre a relação entre ciência e religião; dentre suas publicações constam The Quantum World (1989), Quantum Physics and Theology: An Unexpected Kinship (2005), Exploring Reality: The Intertwining of Science and Religion (2007), and Questions of Truth (2009).[1] Recebeu o Prêmio Templeton de 2002.[2]

Morte

Morreu em 9 de março de 2021, aos 90 anos, em Cambridge, cidade da Inglaterra.[3]

Publicações

Polkinghorne publicou 34 livros, traduzidos em 18 línguas; 26 são sobre ciência e religião, a maioria para uma audiência popular.

Ciência e religião
  • The Polkinghorne Reader : Science, Faith, and the Search for Meaning (Edited by Thomas Jay Oord) (SPCK and Templeton Foundation Press, 2010) ISBN 1-59947-315-1 and ISBN 978-0-281-06053-5
  • The Way the World is : The Christian Perspective of a Scientist (1984 – revised 1992) ISBN 0-281-04597-6
  • One World (SPCK/Princeton University Press 1987; Templeton Foundation Press, 2007) ISBN 978-1-59947-111-2
  • Science and Creation (SPCK/New Science Library, 1989; Templeton Foundation Press, 2006) ISBN 978-1-59947-100-6
  • Science and Providence (SPCK/New Science Library, 1989; Templeton Foundation Press, 2006) ISBN 978-1-932031-92-8
  • Reason and Reality: Relationship Between Science and Theology (SPCK/Trinity Press International 1991) ISBN 978-0-281-04487-0
  • Quarks, Chaos and Christianity (1994; Second edition SPCK/Crossroad 2005) ISBN 0-281-04779-0
  • The Faith of a Physicist – published in the UK as Science and Christian Belief (1994) ISBN 0-691-03620-9
  • Serious Talk: Science and Religion in Dialogue (Trinity Press International/SCM Press, 1996) ISBN 978-1-56338-109-6
  • Scientists as Theologians (1996) ISBN 0-281-04945-9
  • Beyond Science: The wider human context (CUP 1996) ISBN 978-0-521-57212-5
  • Searching for Truth (Bible Reading Fellowship/Crossroad, 1996)
  • Belief in God in an Age of Science (Yale University Press, 1998) ISBN 0-300-08003-4
  • Science and Theology (SPCK/Fortress 1998) ISBN 0-8006-3153-6
  • The End of the World and the Ends of God (Trinity Press International, 2000) with Michael Welker
  • Traffic in Truth: Exchanges Between Sciences and Theology (Canterbury Press/Fortress, 2000) ISBN 978-0-8006-3579-4
  • Faith, Science and Understanding (2000) SPCK/Yale University Press ISBN 0-300-08372-6
  • The Work of Love: Creation as Kenosis editor, with contributors including Ian Barbour, Sarah Coakley, George Ellis, Jurgen Moltmann and Keith Ward (SPCK/Eerdmans 2001) ISBN 0-281-05372-3 / ISBN 0-8028-4885-0
  • The God of Hope and the End of the World (Yale University Press, 2002) ISBN 0-300-09211-3
  • The Archbishop's School of Christianity and Science (York Courses, 2003) ISBN 0954054385
  • 'Science and Christian Faith' (Conversation on CD with Canon John Young. York Courses)
  • Living with Hope (SPCK/Westminster John Knox Press, 2003)
  • Science and the Trinity: The Christian Encounter With Reality (2004) ISBN 0-300-10445-6 (a particularly accessible summary of his thought)
  • Exploring Reality: The Intertwining of Science & Religion (SPCK 2005) ISBN 0-300-11014-6
  • Quantum Physics & Theology: An Unexpected Kinship (SPCK 2007) ISBN 978-0-281-05767-2
  • From Physicist to Priest, an Autobiography SPCK 2007 ISBN 978-0-281-05915-7
  • Theology in the Context of Science SPCK 2008 ISBN 978-0-281-05916-4
  • Questions of Truth: Fiftyone Responses to Questions about God, Science and Belief, with Nicholas Beale; foreword by Antony Hewish (Westminster John Knox 2009) ISBN 978-0-664-23351-8[4]
  • Reason and Reality: The Relationship Between Science and Theology (2011) SPCK ISBN 978-0-281-06400-7
  • Science and Religion in Quest of Truth (2011) SPCK ISBN 978-0-281-06412-0
  • 'Hawking, Dawkins and GOD' (2012) (Conversation on CD with Canon John Young. York Courses)
Ciência
  • The Analytic S-Matrix (CUP 1966, jointly with RJ Eden, PV Landshoff and DI Olive)
  • The Particle Play (W.H. Freeman, 1979)
  • Models of High Energy Processes (CUP 1980)
  • The Quantum World (Longmans/Princeton University Press, 1985; Penguin 1986; Templeton Foundation Press 2007) ISBN 978-0-691-02388-5
  • Rochester Roundabout: The Story of High Energy Physics (New York, Longman, 1989) ISBN 978-0-582-05011-2
  • Quantum Theory: A Very Short Introduction (2002) OUP ISBN 0-19-280252-6
  • Meaning in Mathematics (2011) OUP (edited, with contributions from Timothy Gowers, Roger Penrose, Marcus du Sautoy and others) ISBN 978-0-19-960505-7
Capítulos
  • "The Trinity and Scientific Theology" in The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity, J.B. Stump and Alan G. Padgett (eds.), (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)
  • On Space and Time (CUP 2008) along with Andrew Taylor, Shahn Majid, Roger Penrose, Alain Connes and Michael Heller ISBN 978-0-521-88926-1
  • Spiritual Information: 100 Perspectives on Science and Religion (Templeton Foundation Press, 2005) ed Charles Harper ISBN 1-932031-73-1
  • Creation, Law and Probability (Fortress Press 2008) ed Fraser Watts with Peter Harrison, George Ellis, Philip Clayton, Michael Ruse, Nancey Murphy, John Bowker & others ISBN 978-0-8006-6278-3
  • "Physical Processes, Quantum Events, and Divine Agency," in Quantum Mechanics: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action, Russell, R.J., Clayton, P., Wegter-McNelly, K., Polkinghorne, J. (eds.), (VATICAN: Vatican Observatory, 2001)

Referências

  1. Eric Metaxas (13 de outubro de 2011). Socrates in the City: Conversations on "Life, God, and Other Small Topics". [S.l.]: Penguin Books 
  2. «Participants». John Templeton Foundation. 2005. Consultado em 2 de abril de 2007. Arquivado do original em 27 de setembro de 2007 
  3. «Christian scientist John Polkinghorne dies at 90». www.christianpost.com (em inglês). Consultado em 13 de março de 2021 
  4. Questions of Truth website

Leitura adicional

  • Google Scholar – List of papers by John Polkinghorne
  • Some Polkinghorne quotes
  • John Polkinghorne on the "consequences of quantum theory" (for theology), accessed 9 July 2012.
  • Video interview with Polkinghorne, accessed 25 March 2010.
  • Knight, Christopher C. (2012). "John Polkinghorne" in The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity J.B. Stump and Alan Padgett (eds.) (Wiley-Blackwell).
  • Macfarlane, Alan (2008). Interview of John Polkinghorne, 10 November 2008.
  • Pannenberg, Wolfhart (2001). «Response to John Polkinghorne». Zygon. 36 (4): 799–800. doi:10.1111/0591-2385.00398 
  • Polkinghorne, John. "Reductionism", Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Religion and Science, accessed 25 March 2010.
  • Semple, Ian (2009). From physicist to priest: A quantum leap of faith, The Guardian, 9 April 2009; interview with Polkinghorne.
  • Smedes, Taede A. Chaos, Complexity, and God: Divine Action and Scientism .Louvain: Peeters 2004, a theological investigation of Polkinghorne's (and Arthur Peacocke's) model of divine action.
  • Runehov, Anne L.C. "Chaos, Complexity, and God: Divine Action and Scientism by Taede A. Smedes", Ars Disputandi, Volume 6, 2006.
  • Southgate, Christopher, ed. (1999) God, Humanity and the Cosmos: A Textbook in Science and Religion T&T Clark. Relevant extracts.
  • Steinke, Johannes Maria (2006) John Polkinghorne – Konsonanz von Naturwissenschaft und Theologie Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Investigates Polkinghorne's theory of consonance, and analyses its philosophical background.
  • Wright, Robert. Video interview, Slate, accessed 25 March 2010.

Ligações externas

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1973: Madre Teresa de Calcutá · 1974: Roger Schütz · 1975: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan · 1976: Leo-Jozef Suenens · 1977: Chiara Lubich · 1978: Thomas F. Torrance · 1979: Nikkyo Niwano · 1980: Ralph Wendell Burhoe · 1981: Cicely Saunders · 1982: Billy Graham · 1983: Alexander Soljenítsin · 1984: Michael Bourdeaux · 1985: Alister Hardy · 1986: James I. McCord · 1987: Stanley Jaki · 1988: Inamullah Khan · 1989: Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, James I. McCord · 1990: Baba Amte, Charles Birch · 1991: Immanuel Jakobovits · 1992: Kyung-Chik Han · 1993: Charles Colson · 1994: Michael Novak · 1995: Paul Davies · 1996: Bill Bright · 1997: Pandurang Shastri Athavale · 1998: Sigmund Sternberg · 1999: Ian Barbour · 2000: Freeman Dyson · 2001: Arthur Peacocke · 2002: John Polkinghorne · 2003: Holmes Rolston III · 2004: George Ellis · 2005: Charles Townes · 2006: John David Barrow · 2007: Charles Taylor · 2008: Michał Heller · 2009: Bernard d'Espagnat · 2010: Francisco José Ayala · 2011: Martin Rees · 2012: Tenzin Gyatso · 2013: Desmond Tutu · 2014: Tomáš Halík · 2015: Jean Vanier · 2016: Jonathan Sacks · 2017: Alvin Plantinga · 2018: Abdullah II da Jordânia · 2019: Marcelo Gleiser · 2020: Francis Collins


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