THE PHYSICS OF DAVID BOHM AND ITS RELEVANCE TO PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY |
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| Authors: | Robert John Russell |
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| Affiliation: | Robert John Russell is assistant professor of theology and science in residence at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, and Executive Director of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, also at the Graduate Theological Union, 2465 Le Conte Avenue, Berkeley, California 94709. |
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| Abstract: | Abstract. The purpose of this paper is to analyze David Bohm's work in terms of physics, philosophy, and theology. First, I discuss the development of Bohm's thought since 1951. Then, using the methodology of Imre Lakatos, I evaluate the scientific status of his research program. Next, I explore the philosophical dimensions of Bohm's views in which realist and idealist, monist and dualist, contingent and determinist outlooks occur in creative tension. Finally, I suggest ways in which Bohm's ideas are relevant to theology through concepts of God and cosmos, beauty and purpose, grace and free will, church, self and evil.
The entire universe is basically a single, indivisible…but flexible and ever changing, unit (Bohm 1951, 140).
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