Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reflections of a bottom-up thinker / John Polkinghorne -- John Polkinghorne on three scientist-theologians / Ian G. Barbour -- Is informational causality primary causality? : a study of an aspect of John Polkinghorne’s account of divine action / Terry J. Wright -- Polkinghorne on mathematics and chaos theory / Nicholas Saunders -- Queen physics : how much of the globe is painted red? / Nancy Cartwright and Eric Martin -- God and time : a new flowing time interpretation of special relativity and its importance for theology / Robert John Russell -- Cosmic if-statements / Daniel W. Darg -- Bishop Berkeley’s castle : John Polkinghorne on the soul / Keith Ward -- Theology and scientific cosmology / Fraser Watts -- Christian hope in dialogue with natural science : John Polkinghorne’s incorporation of bottom-up thinking into eschatology / Junghyung Kim -- Subtle and supple : John Polkinghorne’s engagement with reality / Pat Bennett -- On revising natural theology : John Polkinghorne and the false modesty of liberal theology / Russell Re Manning -- John Polkinghorne’s kenotic theology of creation and its implications for a theory of human creativity / James M. Watkins -- Science-and-theology from the standpoint of divine kenosis / Philip Clayton -- Processes of discovery in science and theology : bottom-up approach, critical realism and interdisciplinary inspiration / Michael Welker -- Some responses / John Polkinghorne.