ABSTRACT

Since the physicist Niels Bohr first proposed the concept of complementarity in 1927, there have been a number of attempts to apply the idea to the problems of Christian theology. As early as 1947, Bohr himself suggested an application to the apparent paradox of love and justice in God. 1 Bohr also made other tentative proposals and, on the occasion of his Gifford Lectures (Edinburgh, 1949), he challenged theologians to make more use of the idea of complementarity. 2