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Re: Radio whom?? (stuff about prayer)



I thought logos was that "rational mind" revealed to us through the "Word"- 
I'll have to brush up on my Heraclitus (one of my personal favorites).


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