ABSTRACT

Alfred North Whitehead years ago proposed an organismic approach to physical reality in which the constituent parts of physical entities co-constitute the governing structure of the entity even as the structure constrains the ongoing activity of the constituent parts. In this article, the author proposes that such an organismic approach to reality would be strengthened if one employs a systems-oriented methodology to a Trinitarian understanding of the God-world relationship. The structure of the divine life-system would influence the independent mode of operation of the cosmic process and the mode of operation of the cosmic process would affect the divine persons.

摘要

阿尔弗雷德·诺斯·怀特海多年前提出了一种物理现实的有机方法，其中物理实体的组成部分共同构成了实体的治理结构，即使该结构限制了组成部分的持续活动。在这篇文章中，作者提出，如果人们采用一种面向系统的方法论来对上帝与世界的关系进行三位一体的理解，那么这种对现实的有机方法就会得到加强。神圣生命系统的结构将影响宇宙过程的独立运作模式，而宇宙过程的运作模式将影响神圣人物。