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The following paper was presented at “God and the Unconscious,” a meeting of the Deep Streams Institute (see endnote, pp. 54-55) in San Francisco, on October 28, 2000.
When I first read Rodney Bomford's book, The Symmetry of God, and then some of his other contributions, along with the present paper, I had the feeling that I had been very fortunate, in a way, not to have known him as a youth. If I had, I believe that I might have eagerly joined his parish and converted from my Judaism to his version of “Bi-logic Christianity.” While I believe that Christianity, in all its sects and divisions, constitutes a continuing Jewish heresy, albeit a quite successful one, Rodney Bomford seems himself to be an irreverently reverent Christian reverend in his own right, one whose own heresy is most unusual and worthy of note. He strikes me as being quietly the most compelling theologian-philosopher-logician I have ever come across. His contribution is of great importance, not only to theology, but to psychoanalysis as well, as I hope to show.
After first re-stating a summary of Matte-Blanco's contributions on bi-logic having to do with the twin dialectics of symmetry and asymmetry, i.e., between (a) bi-logic and bivalent logic (1), and (b) between the symmetry and asymmetry of bi-logic, Bomford presents his radical thesis that the state of Absolute Indivisibility and God are (mathementically) identical. As the absoluteness of indivisibility lessens, the concept of God differentiates into transcendence and immanence. Immanence may be analogous to the Holy
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