John Polkinghorne was a high-energy theorist who left a successful physics career to become an Anglican minister. He is president of Queen’s College, Cambridge and is a Fellow of the British Royal Society. Here he uses the Nicene Creed (381 AD) as an “outline” to express his faith. (For his books I've read, click on his name.)

With his physics background and the viewpoint of a “bottoms up” thinker, he uses all available data to examine the ideas expressed in the Nicene Creed. In so doing, he makes many references to others, telling why he agrees or disagrees with them. An intriguing aspect is how he compares Christ’s humanity/divinity to physics’ wave/particle duality. It took me two readings of this book to digest it – he never uses a little word when a big one is available, but he has a large glossary at the back to help you figure them out. (A friend gave me this book and warned me about its British “Ox-bridge” style vocabulary.) I was raised Episcopalian, where we swore the Nicene Creed at every Holy Communion, so I found this book interesting, but not nearly as fascinating as book 1 “Why Religion Matters” by Huston Smith.