ABSTRACT
In a Christian religious context, the logically incompatible interpretations are those expressed in the language of dialog and the language of immutable attributes. The analogical extrapolation of complementarity to theology applies mutually exclusive interpretations in the language of immutable attributes and the language of dialog. Although St. Augustine's primary theological usage invokes the language of dialog, he also made use of the language of immutable attributes when the occasion demanded it. St. Thomas Aquinas, by contrast, placed greater emphasis on the language of immutable attributes. Paul Tillich's theology appears to be expressed in a hierarchy of language levels that replicates the structure of the Copenhagen interpretation. Soren Kierkegaard applied both the language of dialog and the language of immutable attributes in his expression of the Absolute Paradox. Martin Luther emphasized the proclamations and activities of a personal god, a god with whom one enters into a dialog.
