John Habgood, Baron Habgood

Infobox Archbishop of York
name =John Habgood


birth_name =
began = 1983
term_end = 1995
predecessor =Stuart Yarworth Blanch
successor = David Hope
birth_date = 1927
death_date =
tomb = Anglican Portal

John Stapylton Habgood, Baron Habgood PC (born 1927), was Bishop of Durham from 1973 to 1983, and Archbishop of York from 1983 to 1995.

He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1983, and was created a life peer as Baron Habgood, of Calverton in the County of Buckinghamshire on 8 September 1995. He was granted a leave of absence.

tyles

* The Rt. Revd. Dr John Habgood (1973–1983)
* The Most Revd. and Rt. Hon. Dr John Habgood (1983–1995)
* The Rt. Revd. and Rt. Hon. The Lord Habgood PC (1995–)

Religion and science

Habgood is a member and past president of [http://www.srforum.org/index.htm The Science and Religion Forum] . [ web cite|url=http://www.srforum.org/newsite/Reviews/Reviews49.pdf|title=Reviews in Science and Religion (Num. 49, May 2007, page 17) |accessdate=2008-09-18 ] He has written in this area, e.g., his book "Truths in Tension: New Perspectives on Religion and Science" (1965).

Books

*"Religion and Science" (1964) (1965 U.S. publication retitled to "Truths in Tension: New Perspectives on Religion and Science"): A Cavendish Professor of Physics and Nobel Laureate, Nevill Mott, has cited this book. :

"I am impressed too by the point of view of the present Archibishop of York (Dr. John Habgood, Science and Religion, [London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1964] ), that to understand the Bible we must try to enter into the belief patterns of the period" [ page 68 of cite book | author=Margenau, H. | year=1992 | title=Cosmos, Bios, Theos: Scientists Reflect on Science, God, and the Origins of the Universe, Life, and Homo sapiens | publisher=Open Court Publishing Company co-edited with Roy Abraham Varghese. This book is mentioned in a December 28, 1992 Time magazine article: [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977352-1,00.html Galileo And Other Faithful Scientists] ]

*"A Working Faith" (1980)
*"Church and Nation in a Secular Age" (1983)
*"Confessions of a Conservative Liberal" (1988)
*"Making Sense" (1993)
*"Faith and Uncertainty" (1997)
*"Being a Person" (1998)
*"Varieties of Unbelief" (2000)
*"The Concept of Nature" (2002)

References

See also

*List of science and religion scholars

External links

* [http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=215 Biography - John Habgood] , on the Gifford Lectures site. 2000-2001 lectures are online.
* [http://www.investigatingatheism.info/johnhabgood.html John Habgood - God debates] at Cambridge website