| Sumario: | One way of investigating the functions of theological doctrines is to compare them with scientific theories as ways of interpreting experience. Ian Ramsey has treated a number of themes relevant to this comparison, including the use of models in science and theology and the role of paradox in the latter. Ramsey holds that paradoxes are to be dissolved by tracing them back to distinct models, each revealed in and justified by "disclosure." It is here argued that this interpretation is inadequate when the experience-interpreting function of theology is considered, but can consistently be supplemented with an interpretation which treats paradoxes as based on models which are complementary in the wave-particle sense.
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