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Religious language and complementarity

Title
Religious language and complementarity / John Losee.
Author
Losee, John.
Publication
Lanham, MD : University Press of America, ©1992.

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Description
vi, 273 pages; 22 cm
Subject
  • Tillich, Paul, 1886-1965
  • Language and languages > Religious aspects > Christianity
  • Quantum theory > Religious aspects > Christianity
  • Complementarity (Physics)
  • Religiöse Sprache
  • Komplementarität
Note
  • Includes indexes.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
"Theology and falsification" revisited -- The language of immutable attributes and the language of dialogue; Orwellian doublethink; Sartre on ontological structure -- Christian theology and the two languages: a brief historical survey; Augustine; Anselm; Thomas Aquinas; Luther; Calvin; Pascal; Kierkegaard; Barth -- The Orwellian challenge: assumptions and options -- Omnipotence and dialogue; Interpretations of 'omnipotence'; God and personhood -- Theology in the language of immutable attributes; Spinoza on substance and its modes; Schleiermacher on the feeling of absolute dependence -- Theology in the language of dialogue; E.S. Brightman on "the given" in God's nature; Edwin Lewis on God's adversary -- Reinhold Niebuhr's theology of dialogue -- Bultmann's existentialist alternative -- The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics; The interpretation of experiments in quantum mechanics; The pictorial level of interpretation; Bohr's "Kantian program" -- Tillich's theology of correlation; The observational level: existential analysis; The theoretical level: ontological structure; The pictorial level: theological answers, dialogic language, and the language of immutable attributes -- Theology of correlation and the Copenhagen interpretation: a cogent analogy?; Aspects of the positive analogy; Is the pictorial level dispensable within quantum mechanics?; Is the pictorial level dispensable within a theology of correlation? -- "As if" interpretations and cognitive significance; Theoretical explanation in science; "As if" interpretations in theology -- Recapitulation.
ISBN
  • 0819183717
  • 9780819183712
LCCN
91023276
OCLC
  • ocm24010405
  • 24010405
  • SCSB-1950865
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library