Moorad Alexanian wrote:
>
> My two-cents-worth. In physics we do not really understand the notion of
> duality when it comes to wave-like and particle-like behaviors. I ask you,
> is the Incarnation easier or much, much harder to understand? Much of the
> interaction of God with the physical is for us imperfect knowledge, in the
> sense that we can know it, because of our spiritual component, yet not be
> able to neither understand it nor explain it. Moorad
A number of people have tried to use the idea of complementarity, exemplified
in the wave-particle duality, to talk about the Incarnation. The human & divine natures
are supposedly complementary. I have pointed out (e.g., my article in Perspectives,
March 1999) that this works - or at least works better - for traditional Reformed
christology than for Lutheran. Saying that two aspects A & B of something are
complementary in quantum physics means that in any given situation one must speak of it
as A or B but not both. You don't observe an electron as a wave _and_ a particle in the
same experiment. In traditional Lutheran christology in which (as I discussed in a
parallel post) the communication of divine attributes to the assumed human nature makes
the use of the complementarity concept problematic.
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
gmurphy@raex.com
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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