John Polkinghorne, KBE FRS (born in 1930) is an English theoretical
physicist, theologian, and Anglican priest. A prominent and leading
voice explaining the relationship between science and religion, he
was professor of mathematical physics at the University of
Cambridge from 1968 to 1979, became an ordained Anglican priest in
1982 and served as the president of Queens' College, Cambridge,
from 1988 to 1996.
Michael Welker, (born in 1947) was a professor of theology at the
German universities of T�bingen, M�nster, and Heidelberg and
frequently a guest professor in the Anglo-American world (McMaster,
Princeton, Harvard, Emory, and Cambridge). He is an honorary
professor at Seoul Theological University, senior professor at the
University of Heidelberg, and director of its Research Center
International and Interdisciplinary Theology (FIIT). He has
organized many international and interdisciplinary research
projects that related theology and science, theology and law,
theology and economy.
"Two leading Christian thinkers, a physicist and a theologian,
engage here in a truth-seeking conversation about their common
faith in the living God. The book is short but its content is
profound: a compelling witness to both the reasonableness and
substantive richness of the Christian faith written for its
troubled friends and its educated despisers alike."
--Miroslav Volf, director of Yale Center for Faith and Culture
"Here is a stimulating dialogue on the articles of faith from two
of the most gifted theologians of our time. Polkinghorne speaks in
conversation with science and Welker with philosophical and
cultural challenges. Though different in some ways, they are both
convinced that a biblically informed faith invites us to speak of
God in the midst of life as it actually exists in all of its
complex possibilities and dangers. This is much more of an
invitation to join a conversation than it is a system of thought. I
found it compelling."
--Frank D. Macchia, Vanguard University
"This book's genre makes it unique and exceptional--a conversation
between friends, although from diverse backgrounds, both of them
informed and inspiring. There are many other books on these themes,
even these two have published on many of these topics, but there is
nothing like this book. Readers are privileged almost to overhear
while two major public intellectuals of our time
engage--personally, respectfully, honestly--in serious dialogue on
questions of truth and understanding."
--Dirk J. Smit, Princeton Theological Seminary
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