Aquinas speculated that angels move from place to place without passing through the space between: no time, no transit. I've always pictured the risen Christ moving the same way: appearing to Mary in the garden, standing in the Upper Room with the doors locked, walking the road to Emmaus, then vanishing. Wormhole, huh? I like that.
Hmmmm. I wonder if this metaphor undersells the incarnation a bit. A wormhole connects two separate realities, but Jesus doesn't just connect God and humanity, he actually brings them together in himself. That feels like an even stranger mystery.
No metaphor is perfect, otherwise they wouldn’t be metaphors. If we look at a black hole, white hole, and wormhole all as parts of the whole, I think it works well.
Aquinas speculated that angels move from place to place without passing through the space between: no time, no transit. I've always pictured the risen Christ moving the same way: appearing to Mary in the garden, standing in the Upper Room with the doors locked, walking the road to Emmaus, then vanishing. Wormhole, huh? I like that.
That should have been from my other pub, Two Episcopalians on Believing. Still learning how to use Substack.
Hmmmm. I wonder if this metaphor undersells the incarnation a bit. A wormhole connects two separate realities, but Jesus doesn't just connect God and humanity, he actually brings them together in himself. That feels like an even stranger mystery.
No metaphor is perfect, otherwise they wouldn’t be metaphors. If we look at a black hole, white hole, and wormhole all as parts of the whole, I think it works well.
Sure, every metaphor has limits, my question is where it breaks down.