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John C. Polkinghorne, internationally renowned priest-scientist, addresses fundamental questions about how scientific and theological worldviews relate to each other in this, the second volume (originally published in 1988) of his trilogy, which also included Science and Providence and One World.Dr. Polkinghorne illustrates how a scientifically minded person approaches the task of theological inquiry, postulating that there exists a close analogy between theory and experiment in science and belief and understanding in theology. He offers a fresh perspective on such questions as: Are we witness

The search for truth -- Comparative heuristics -- Lessons from history -- Conceptual exploration -- Cousins

Reality? -- The causal nexus of the world -- Human nature : the evolutionary context -- The historical Jesus -- Divine reality : the Trinity -- The nature of time : unfolding story -- The spirit and the faiths -- Evil -- Ethical exploration : genetics -- Imaginative postscript : some naive speculations.