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Book SynopsisThese essays examine the significance of balance between the opposites in order to understand God and the world. The author argues that opposites-the subject and object, mind and nature, good and evil, truth and falsehood-are not separated from each other but interdependent in the relational paradigm. Each cannot exist without the other. Creative advancement is achieved by their dynamic tensions. The paradoxical relationship between the opposites is not posited in the mechanistic model in which opposites are recognized as separate entities and thereby antagonists; rather, they are dialectical and creative in the organic model. Based on this organic model, the relationship between God and the world is not hierarchical but interdependent. In the organic model, God is not described simply as a transcendent reality in a dualistic structure of God and the world. God reveals God-self in harmonious order and pattern as the ultimate principle formed in the world. In other words, God reveals
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1. Hegel's Dialectical Method and the System of Totality Chapter 3 2. Creativity and God in Process Chapter 4 3. Divine Paradox and Harmony in Whitehead and Jung Chapter 5 4. Bateson's Theory of Double-Binding and Meta-Context Chapter 6 5. Non-directed Order and Harmony Chapter 7 6. Wonhyo's Buddhist Thought of One Mind in the Organic Model Chapter 8 7. The Theological Significance of Paradox in the Organic Model Chapter 9 Conclusion Chapter 10 Selected Bibliography
