Physics and Eastern Orthodoxy

 

Two quotes ponging around my empty head of late:

“All creation is a gigantic Burning Bush, permeated but not consumed by the ineffable and wondrous fires of God’s energies.” – Timothy Ware, The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to Eastern Christianity

 

“Wolfgang Pannenberg has suggested that there may exist a previously undiscovered universal energy field … which can be regarded as the source of all life, and which can be identified with the Holy Spirit … I shall argue that the universal [quantum] wave function …. is a universal field with the essential features of Pannenberg’s proposed new ‘energy’ field. … If this identification is made, it becomes reasonable as a matter of physics to say God is in the world, everywhere, and is with us, standing beside us, at all times.” – Frank J. Tipler, The Physics of Immortality