The Faith of a Physicist: Reflections of a Bottom-Up Thinker
In his series of lectures, Polkinghorne explores ‘to what extent we can use the search for motivated understanding…as a route to being able to make the substance of Christian orthodoxy our own’. A ‘bottom-up’ thinker, he investigates how those whose thoughts ‘are formed by long experience of working as a theoretical physicist, approach questions of the justification and understanding of religious belief’. He weighs the evidence of theological statements considering contemporary explanations for ourselves and the universe.