Crystal Clear

Modern and post-modern ways of thinking to me have always been pictured as different ways to view the world, with pros and cons of each.

In a book on adult education (Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach), Jane Vella holds up quantum concepts as a breakthrough for understanding teaching and relating. Quantum physics is relatively new science in the 20th century. Applying this to the social sciences results in theories on quantum thinking. Quantum is a measure of energy. Related to quantum ‘thinking’ is synergy, separate units are seen as part of a whole, and context becomes important.

Let’s follow some logic. Modern thinking was based on a Newtonian world with mechanics of cause and effect, and defined structures.

Now that we define the world with quantum physics, ie, the Newtonian way was incorrect, does that mean that much of modern thinking was based on a false view of how the world was to work? Can we now make value judgments against much of the modernistic worldview?

It would therefore not just a different way of looking at the world, but an incorrect way.

If so, this has further implications for the way much of our current Western society is set up.

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A colleague prayed this the other day to God: “You only know right” and it struck me as something profound. God is good and so he only knows what is good and right. Evil is so far from who he is.

My colleague went further and talked about how since God only knows right and is all powerful he could fix all the problems the world in an instant. But his choice is to know us, to have a relationship with us, made possible through Jesus, and then to use us in his plan to accomplish what is good and right.

Huh.

I reflected on that for my life, my work and my church, and thought that if God chooses to know people and work through them, that I should act similarly – to get to know people and work together with them for what is right.

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