God and the Scientist – a Festschrift for John Polkinghorne – is Out Now…

… despite what Amazon says at the moment. Church House Bookshop here in London had five or six copies on their ‘new releases’ table.

Eagle-eyed, long-time readers of this blog (chortle!) will know that a Festschrift was planned a couple of years ago when the International Society for Science & Religion announced an essay competition in honour of John Polkinghorne. I submitted an essay cumbersomely entitled ‘Is Primary Causality Informational Causality? A Study of an Aspect of John Polkinghorne’s Account of Divine Action’, but it wasn’t one of the prize winners. However, the editors of the Festschrift seemed to find my submission interesting enough to publish it, anyway. So I’m happy – especially because, in his afterword to the volume, John Polkinghorne himself describes my paper as ‘helpful’. High praise!