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Re: Radio whom?? (stuff about prayer)

Subject: Re: Radio whom?? (stuff about prayer)
From: "Peter T. Chattaway" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 23:48:32 -0700 (PDT)
cc: Over the Rhine listserv <over-the-rhine at actwin_com>
In-Reply-To: <F15843Q182H6hm0a3Q80000394c at hotmail_com>

On Tue, 28 May 2002, ryan richards wrote:
> I am now entrigued with the idea of the creative power of words.  The
> book of John even states that the universe was created through the
> spoken Word of God, doesn't it?

Not quite.  The Greek word translated "Word" is "logos", which, in Greek
philosophy, IIRC, referred to the underlying rationality that held the
universe together.  Something like that.

--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- peter at chattaway_com ---
 "I detected one misprint, but to torture you I will not tell you where."
      Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence, re Seven Pillars of Wisdom

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