Category: Theology
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Empathy: Seeing Myself as The Other Sees Me [2]
I’m interested in this short series in trying to reflect on the best ground for our attempts to empathise with ‘the other.’ In the first post I ended by suggesting that it would be fruitful to consider where our fears of engaging the other lie. So here we go: It seems to me that Levinas…
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Zizek vs Milbank | Christianity as the Death and Resurrection of God
A very interesting, if complex, debate at the ICA last night between Slavoj Zizek – atheist, Marxist – and John Milbank – ‘radical orthodox’ theologian. Both are clearly fearsome intellects, though doubtless Zizek has the better jokes. It would be an impossible task (actually, Thomas Lynch does a great job here!) to even attempt a…
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Theology and the New Physics [6] | Heaven Is A [Parallel] Place [not quite] On Earth
Just a final thought to wrap up this series of posts reflecting on some theological implications of the new physics: as I mentioned, one implication of the Many Worlds Interpretation appears to be that of eternal life. The concept of Quantum Suicide suggests that at each ‘quantum moment’ I might die in one universe –…
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Theology and the New Physics [5] | Many Worlds
New Physics [1] | New Physics [2] | New Physics [3] | New Physics [4] The idea that an external observer was required to ‘collapse the wavefunction’ of reality obviously didn’t sit well with physics, as it seemed to require a ‘big’ external observer to make the universe real. Physicists didn’t like that one bit,…
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Theology and the New Physics [4] – Reality is a Collapsed Wavefunction
New Physics [1] | New Phyiscs [2] | New Physics [3] In the previous post I extended the argument that it is impossible for a person in a n-dimensional universe to observe with any proper perspective an (n+k)-dimensional universe, to propose that the reverse is also true: an observer in a higher dimensional space can…
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Theology and the New Physics [3] | Engaging The Maze
New Physics [1] | New Physics [2] In the previous two posts I’ve been trying to explore some of the implications that the ‘new physics’ might have on our theology. It is worth emphasising that I strongly believe that the new physics must have an impact on our theology. If it, or indeed any new…