Arthur Peacocke, the 2001 winner of the Templeton Prize, devoted the first twenty-five years of his career to teaching and research in the field of physical biochemistry, specializing in biological macromolecules and making significant contributions to our understanding of the structure of DNA. His principal interest during the past thirty-three years has been in exploring the relation of science to theology. After going up to Oxford, where he was a scholarship student at Exeter College and took first class honors in chemistry, he worked in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory, with Nobel laureate Sir Cyril Hinshelwood, and earned a D. Phil. in physical biochemistry in 1948. For the next eleven years, he taught at the University of Birmingham and then returned to Oxford as a fellow and tutor at St. Peter’s College from 1959 to 1973. In addition to publishing more than 125 papers and three books in his field, he served as editor of Biopolymers, the Biochemical Journal, and a series of monographs on physical biochemistry published by Oxford University Press. While lecturing at Birmingham, Dr. Peacocke also had studied theology, and he was ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1971. He went on to serve as dean, and as a fellow, of Clare College, Cambridge, for eleven years. In 1985, he became founding director of the Ian Ramsey Centre at St. Cross College, Oxford, a position he held until 1988. To oversee the administration of a grant from the John Templeton Foundation, he resumed the directorship of the Centre, which studies issues in the relation of theology to science, from 1995 to 1999. A founder of the Science and Religion Forum in the United Kingdom, of the corresponding European society (ESSSAT), and of the Society of Ordained Scientists, a new dispersed religious order, he is an honorary chaplain and canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and a former member of the board of advisors of the Templeton Foundation. Among the numerous invited lectures that Dr. Peacocke has delivered throughout the world are the 1978 Bampton Lecture at Oxford and the 1992-93 Gifford Lectures at St. Andrews University. He has been awarded the senior degree of D.Sc. as well as a D.D. by Oxford and honorary degrees from Georgetown University and De Pauw University. In 1993, he was made a member of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II. The author of a dozen books exploring the relationship between science and religion, his studies include Science and the Christian Experiment (1971), which won the Lecomte du Neüy Prize, Theology for a Scientific Age (1990 and 1993), winner of a Templeton Foundation Outstanding Book Prize, From DNA to Dean: Reflections and Explorations of a Priest-Scientist (1996), God and Science: A Quest for Christian Credibility (1996), and Paths From Science Towards God: The End of All Our Exploring (2001), a volume in which he draws upon decades of creative reflection and writing on science and religion to expound various ways of thinking of God’s presence and activity in the world and of re-vitalizing the enterprise of theology. Dr. Peacock’s most recent books, in addition to In Whom We Live and Have Our Being: Panentheistic Reflections on God’s Presence in a Scientific World (2004), a volume edited with Philip Clayton, and Evolution: The Disguised Friend of Faith? Selected Essays (2004), a presentation of his theistic view of a purposive evolution, are The Palace of Glory: God’s World and Science (ATF Press) and, with Ann Pederson, The Music of Creation (Fortress Press), both published last year.