DAVID BOHM, POSTMODERNISM, AND THE DIVINE
- 1 June 1985
- journal article
- Published by Open Library of the Humanities in Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science
- Vol. 20 (2) , 193-217
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.1985.tb00591.x
Abstract
This is an exposition and critique of physicist David Bohm's theory of wholeness and the implicate order in light of the wider emerging postmodern consciousness. Postmodernity is defined primarily as advocacy for wholistic thinking over against the alleged fragmentation characteristic of the modern mind since Rene Descartes and Isaac Newton. When Bohm attempts to unite all things in the explicate order with his implicate “multidimensional ground,” theological questions are raised and, in this article, addressed. The thesis is advanced that there is no whole which presently exists, meaning that the future is presently open, and that the unity of the cosmos awaits the eschatological act of God.Keywords
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