Quantum Theology: How Good Friday becomes God Friday
Quantum theology begins on Good Friday. In fact, it turns Good Friday in God Friday. Here’s how. Quantum physics turned the world of Newtonian physics upside down by showing that it was not the whole story of the physical reality of the world. It was partially true. But that partial truth had been inflated into the whole truth such that Newtonian physics was the accepted orthodoxy. That made quantum physics seem like a threat if not a thoroughly incoherent theory. Quantum theology, which begins with the incarnation of Jesus at Christmas and climaxes at the cross and resurrection, entered a Jewish world full of orthodoxies about how God acts in the world. Good solid orthodoxies. Orthodoxies that seemed to have worked for centuries. Around the edges of the canon are documents that question those orthodoxies (Job, Ecclesiastes) and there are those strange hints of a servant figure in the latter part of Isaiah, but nobody made much of...