Chaos, communications theory, and God's abundance

被引:2
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作者
Huchingson, JE [1 ]
机构
[1] Florida Int Univ, Miami, FL 33199 USA
来源
ZYGON | 2002年 / 37卷 / 02期
关键词
Nicolas Berdyaev; communication theory; cosmological question; divine sovereignty; Meister Eckhart; Pandemonium Tremendum; primordial chaos; tsimtsum; Ungrund; variety;
D O I
10.1111/0591-2385.00435
中图分类号
D58 [社会生活与社会问题]; C913 [社会生活与社会问题];
学科分类号
摘要
As the creator, God is the source of the abundance for immense variety manifest in creation. The reservoir for this abundance is the Primordial chaos, identified as the Pandemonium Tremendum, God manages this inexhaustible "storehouse of the snow" through decisions or "willings," giving rise to constraints that result in the ordered array of creation. Without this active and decisive vigilance, the Pandemonium Tremendum would scour and ravage the creation. Also, as an omniscient, unobtrusive, and impartial witness, God manages the primordial chaos without compromising its unfettered variety. What is the role of chaos as the Ungrund? I creatures are the consequence of acts of decision. God alone is self-decisive and, hence, the uniquely sovereign creator. That is, God arises spontaneously through an aboriginal act of in-speaking. Otherwise, and in utter contradiction to its radically unprincipled character, the primordial chaos would provide the arche or sufficient reason for divine causation. This mythic and metaphysical account falls in the tradition of Meister Eckhart and Nicolas Berdyaev and is expressed in the rubric of communication theory.
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页数:20
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