21 Facts About Arthur Peacocke

Arthur Robert Peacocke was an English Anglican theologian and biochemist.

Arthur Robert Peacocke was born in Watford, England, on 29 November 1924.

Arthur Peacocke taught at the University of Birmingham from 1948 until 1959 when he was appointed University Lecturer in Biochemistry in the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor of St Peter's College.

Arthur Peacocke returned to St Peter's College the following year, becoming Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre until 1988 and again from 1995 until 1999.

Arthur Peacocke was appointed Honorary Chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford, in c and Honorary Canon in 1994.

Arthur Peacocke had been Select Preacher before the University of Oxford in 1973 and 1975 and was Bampton Lecturer in 1978.

Arthur Peacocke was Hulsean Preacher at Cambridge in 1976 and Gifford Lecturer at St Andrew's in 1993.

Arthur Peacocke became an academic fellow of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science in 1986.

Arthur Peacocke founded the Society of Ordained Scientists in c and served as its first Warden from 1987 to 1992 and Warden Emeritus from 1992 until his death.

Arthur Peacocke was a sometime Vice-President of the Modern Church People's Union and member of the council of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology.

Arthur Peacocke was awarded the Lecomte du Nouy Prize in 1983.

Arthur Peacocke received honorary doctorates from DePauw University and Georgetown University.

Arthur Peacocke was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1993.

Arthur Peacocke self-identified as a panentheist, which he was careful to distinguish from being a pantheist.

Arthur Peacocke is perhaps best known for his attempts to argue rigorously that evolution and Christianity need not be at odds.

Arthur Peacocke describes a position which is referred to elsewhere as "front-loading", after the fact that it suggests that evolution is entirely consistent with an all-knowing, all-powerful God who exists throughout time, sets initial conditions and natural laws, and knows what the result will be.

Arthur Peacocke offers five basic arguments in support of his position outlined below.

Biological evolution is an example of this and, according to Arthur Peacocke, should be taken as a reminder of God's immanence.

Arthur Peacocke contends that the capacities necessary for consciousness and thus a relationship with God enable their possessors to experience pain, as necessary for identifying injury and disease.

Arthur Peacocke takes an eastern argument for natural evil of that which made must be unmade for a new making to occur; there is no creation without destruction.

The Jesus-as-pinnacle-of-human-evolution argument proposed by Arthur Peacocke is that Jesus Christ is.