This book presents a celebration, survey and critique of the theological work of arguably the most important and most widely-read contributor to the modern dialogue between science and theology: John Polkinghorne. Including a major survey by Polkinghorne himself of his life's work in theology, this book draws together contributors from among the most important voices in the science-theology dialogue today to focus on key aspects of Polkinghorne's work, with Polkinghorne providing responses. Anybody exploring contemporary aspects of the science-religion debate will find this book invaluable.

1: Reflections of a Bottom-up Thinker; 2: John Polkinghorne on Three Scientist-Theologians; 3: Is Informational Causality Primary Causality? A Study of an Aspect of John Polkinghorne's Account of Divine Action; 4: Polkinghorne on Mathematics and Chaos Theory; 5: Queen Physics: How Much of the Globe is Painted Red?; 6: God and Time: A New Flowing Time Interpretation of Special Relativity and its Importance for Theology 1; 7: Cosmic If-statements; 8: Bishop Berkeley's Castle: John Polkinghorne on the Soul; 9: Theology and Scientific Cosmology; 10: Christian Hope in Dialogue with Natural Science: John Polkinghorne's Incorporation of Bottom-up Thinking into Eschatology; 11: Subtle and Supple: John Polkinghorne's Engagement with Reality; 12: On Revising Natural Theology: John Polkinghorne and the False Modesty of Liberal Theology; 13: John Polkinghorne's Kenotic Theology of Creation and its Implications for a Theory of Human Creativity; 14: Science-and-Theology from the Standpoint of Divine Kenosis; 15: Processes of Discovery in Science and Theology: Bottom-up Approach, Critical Realism and Interdisciplinary Inspiration; 16: Some Responses