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Wisdom's Information: Rereading a Biblical Image in the Light of Some Contemporary Science and Speculation
Author(s) -
Nancarrow Paul S.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/0591-2385.701997070
Subject(s) - speculation , metaphysics , interpretation (philosophy) , epistemology , philosophy , power (physics) , scientific theory , confluence , computer science , physics , linguistics , economics , quantum mechanics , macroeconomics , programming language
The biblical image of Wisdom as the power who “orders all things well” in nature and in human life can be read in the light of contemporary information theory. Some current scientific speculation offers an interpretation of reality as a vast information‐processing system, in which informational situations are continuously transformed through algorithmic operations. This interpretation finds a metaphysical counterpart in the distinction between “nature natured” and “nature naturing” in the philosophical theology of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This confluence of religious, metaphysical, and scientific imagery suggests a picture of the world in which the processes of “nature naturing,”“human humaning,” and “God Godding” inform and recur in each other.