John Polkinghorne has become widely known for his elegant and well-informed contributions to our understanding of the relationship between scientific thought and religious faith. His trilogy – One World, Science and Creation, and Science and Providence – has been acclaimed as an authoritative, yet readily accessible, integration of the insights of science and religion. Science and Christian Belief is his most important book to date. It is the first attempt to apply scientific habits of thought to the core of Christian belief, to examine in turn the central tenets of the creeds in light of a thoroughly modern world-view. The result is a fascinating and intellectually compelling new presentation of orthodox Christianity – but the, as Polkinghorne writes in his Introduction, ‘a scientist would expect a fundamental theory to be tough, surprising, and exciting’.