New Bishop of Whitby - The Diocese of York

world in which there is suffering?"
He describes it as the most
challenging question to religious
belief. He admits there is no simple,
one line answer that removes all the
difficulties.
At the heart of his faith, is his focus
on Jesus. ".... in the cross of
Christ we see God himself, having
lived a human life, stretching out his
arms to embrace the suffering of the
world."
“And it certainly can't be that we
were all fools until Richard Dawkins
came along." Polkinghorne says that
he thinks science purchases great
success by the modesty of its
ambition. "It isn't trying to ask and
answer every question. It tells you
how things happen, but it doesn't
say whether something's going on in
what is happening - is there meaning
or purpose or value going on?"
In talking of his own faith, John
Polkinghorne acknowledges the
seriousness of the question, "Why a
The conversation also touches on the
possibility of life on other planets.
"If there are little green men who are
in need of redemption, then the
divine Word will take little green
flesh for their redemption, as we
believe the divine Word took our
flesh for our redemption." But John
Polkinghorne returns to his own
faith in Christ, expressed in a way
that is humble but passionate,
intelligible but profound, reassuring
but challenging.
This CD will be as well spent an hour
as you can have.
+Richard Frith, Bishop of Hull
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