Two quotations from Arthur Peacocke

Two quotations from Arthur Peacocke

 

Reverend Canon Arthur Peacocke (1924-2006), MBE, received his D. Phil. from the University of Oxford in 1948, followed by a D.Sc. in 1962.  He taught biochemistry at the University of Birmingham and, after 1959, at the University of Oxford.  He was ordained a priest of the Church of England in 1971, the same year that he earned a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Birmingham.  In 1982, he received a Doctor of Divinity degree from Oxford.

 

Rowing on the river at Oxford
Rowing at Oxford in 2014
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God is creating at every moment of the world’s existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world. . . .

Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century.


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