^Gloria L. Schaab (18 October 2007). The Creative Suffering of the Triune God: An Evolutionary Theology. Oxford University Press. p. 6. ISBN9780198044048. Made a member of the Order of the British Empire by 1993 by Queen Elizabeth II, Arthur Peacocke served as Waden Emeritus of the Society of Ordained Scientists, an ecumenical religious order that he founded in 1985; Honorary Canon of Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford; an international lecturer and scholar.
^John Templeton; Kenneth Seeman Giniger (1 June 1998). Spiritual Evolution: Scientists Discuss Their Beliefs. Templeton Foundation Press. p. 109. ISBN9781890151164. So it was that in 1987 there was founded, initially within the Church of England, a new dispersed Order. The Society of Ordained Scientists (S.O.Sc.), is held together by a Rule of prayer and sacrament, to which we are committed through appropriate vows made at an annual Eucharist presided over in the first nine years by the then Archbishop of York, Dr. John Habgood, who was formerly a research physiologist.
^Robert J. Russell; Ted Peters; Nathan Hallanger (2006). God's Action in Nature's World: Essays in Honour of Robert John Russell. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 5. ISBN9780754655565. By the early 1970s centers and societies for the study of science and religion were budding around the world. At Oxford University, biologist-theologian Arthur Peacocke organized the Society of Ordained Scientists and cultivated the Ian Ramsey Centre for research in this field.
^Ted Peters (2003). Science, theology, and ethics. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 46. ISBN9780754608257. Oxford scholar Arthur Peacocke is a biochemist as well as a theologian and heads a recently founded order for hybrids called the Society of Ordained Scientists.
^"Constitution of the Society of Ordained Scientists". Society of Ordained Scientists. 2017. The Society originated as a community of scientists within the ordained ministry (men and women) of the Anglican Communion. Membership is open, at the invitation of the Warden, to ordained members of this and any other church following a Trinitarian confession.
^Eric Jenkins Childwall (December 1990). "The inception and growth of an ecumenical dispersed religious order (1985-7)". Society of Ordained Scientists. Tentative proposals emerged for the formation of a dispersed religious order, open to ordained ministers of the Church of England and to the other main Christian Churches who shared a common background and were prepared to commit themselves to certain Aims, a Rule and Constitution. Within four years, that is by the summer of 1990, the Society of Ordained Scientists had attracted 55 full members, including men and women: Methodists, United Reformed Church, Presbyterian as well as Anglicans; Scottish, Welsh, Canadian and American as well as English.