Knight’s Move

Published in 1992,  The Knight’s Move: The Relational Logic of the Spirit in Theology and Science by James Loder and W. Jim Neidhardt is not widely discussed or read, so far as I have seen.  It deserves better.  It suggests a new grammar and logic for the dialogue science and theology under the connected categories of “relationality” and “spirit.”  Drawing from Kierkegaard, mediated through Niels Bohr, the authors highlight the principle of  ”complementarity,” or the coherence of contradictories,which for them is ultimately a Christological category.  The idea is that two mutually exclusive and exhaustive explanations are necessary to make sense of some reality: Simply, 100% God and 100% man of the incarnation.  This provides them with a model to explore knowledge, human development, discovery, and the strange loops of human thought and of corporate life.  A bit of a Kierkegaard overload, but it’s well worth some time.