Arthur Peacocke Quotes

Arthur Peacocke — English Theologian born on November 29, 1924, died on October 21, 2006

The Reverend Canon Arthur Robert Peacocke MBE was a British Anglican theologian and biochemist... (wikipedia)

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.

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.

Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each.

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.

Arthur Peacocke Quotes

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