Dear George,
As you probably know I do not advocate a particle-wave duality as an
explanation of the Incarnation. My point was to contrast the degree of
difficulty of one with the other. I always learn from your posts.
Take care,
Moorad
-----Original Message-----
From: George Murphy <gmurphy@raex.com>
To: Moorad Alexanian <alexanian@uncwil.edu>
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Date: Saturday, April 15, 2000 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: A "proper" theology
>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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