Abstract
Wilkinson, who has his doctorate in Theoretical Astrophysics and is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a Methodist minister, has written a very accessible book for a popular audience (with helpful charts and humorous illustrations) about cosmology and its relationship to theism. The book assumes that the reader has little background in science or religion (p. 11) and is written in light of the issues raised in Stephen Hawking's best-seller, A Brief History of Time, such as the universe's origin, the place of a Creator in light of current physics, and the search for a grand unified theory.