ABSTRACT
John C. Polkinghorne a theoretical physicist and Anglican priest, has urged the deepening interplay of science and theology, pointing out the similarities of the bottom-up methods that science and theology can use for motivated belief. Polkinghorne identifies himself as both a scientist and a person of faith, but he is clear about the limitations of both science and theology, and eager to encourage their collaboration. Polkinghorne notes his habits of thought have been formed by long experience of working as a theoretical physicist, and states his doing natural theology is part and parcel of doing theology. Polkinghorne explains the quest for God by scientific contextual theology will seek its theological motivation in the divine economy, those acts of creation and revelation which are the chosen means of divine disclosure. Polkinghorne states the quantum theory reflected the irresistible nudge of nature to push physicists in the counterintuitive direction of the superposition principle.
