Reality and Waves: A Quantum Physics Cosmology, Philosophy of Religion, and Ethic

by Mark Ellingsen author of The Integrity o

Overview

Reality and Waves brings Philosophy into dialogue with Quantum Physics, offering a full-blown system Ellingsen calls the Philosophy of Waves. Quantum Physicists contend that reality is wave-like, and so the book helps us to see what the universe looks like when all its components are construed as being waves. Ellingsen makes the case for how Religion and Ethics have scientific validity. He teaches a Quantum Ethic for readers, a vision of life as joyful play in the waves of reality, but doing so with a commitment to fighting any wave which aims to divide us or increase entropy (unfocused, destructive energy). He also introduces us to a God who dwells in the “stuff” of matter, a God who binds the particles and atoms into matter. The result is a Philosophy of Religion offering fresh solutions to perennial questions about the relationship between freedom and destiny, about God's transcendence and immanence in the cosmos, and about God's relationship to evil. The philosophical system in this book will also teach you what Science and Philosophy have to do with everyday life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781793645197
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	02/15/2023
Pages:	140
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.34(h) x 0.72(d)

About the Author

Mark Ellingsen professor on the faculty of the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, GA, is the author of 26 books.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Life in a Topsy-Turvy World

Chapter One: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

Chapter Two: The Waves of Life Are Always Emerging and Interfering: Implications of Quantum Theory and the Principle of Uncertainty for Philosophical Cosmology and Everyday Life

Chapter Three: Finding and Doing Good Amidst the Waves: Implications of Quantum Theory for Ethics

Chapter Four: Is There Space for God and Faith in a Cosmology of Waves? Introducing Complementarity

Chapter Five: God’s Role in the Waves of Life

Chapter Six: How Quantum Insights and Faith Help Us Ride the Waves

Conclusion: Enjoy the Waves!

Bibliography

About the Author

Editorial Reviews

This book is a conversation for our times entailing a perspective that enables us to think in new ways about God using the observations and tools of Quantum Physics. Mark Ellingsen visualizes life as a series of waves and that out of Quantum Physics entails an understanding that all matter, and all life is interconnected. Given this perspective, God, a God in process, is involved in holding together matter and life, like matter, is full of a series of waves. This conversation is congruent with current questions and experiences of people of faith.

Everett Flanigan

Reader, do not be fooled, this book does not try to use physics to prove faith or even to try to create a compatibilism for Physics and Faith; rather a much more interesting project is accomplished by Ellingsen. This important book helps readers think through what contemporary physicists propose as the best paradigm for understanding the smallest particles of reality and then uses the principles of that paradigm as a helpful allegory for the life of faith. Readers will find themselves learning both physics and theology as they explore with Ellingsen this dialogue between the worldview that emerges out of Quantum Physics and faith, a dialogue that Ellingsen concludes with a picture that 'entails that life is full of waves and change.'

Jennifer Hockenberry