John Polkinghorne Quotes About Creation

Quotes about: Creation

• The remarkable insights that science affords us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation more profound than that which itself can provide. Religion, if it is to take seriously its claim that the world is the creation of god, must be humble enough to learn from science what that world is actually like. The dialogue between them can only be mutually enriching.

  John Polkinghorne

  Humble, Profound, World

  John Polkinghorne (1995). “Serious Talk: Science and Religion in Dialogue”, p.75, A&C Black

• Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.

  John Polkinghorne

  Character, Age, Doctrine

• I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

  John Polkinghorne

  Thinking, Giving, Temptation

• Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

  John Polkinghorne

  Doctrine, Attention, Stories

• However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.

  John Polkinghorne

  Church, Christ, Creation

• I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.

  John Polkinghorne

  Christian, Thinking, Important

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