Christmas reflections

[alecto]

[alliebath]

I would rather, in this vein, Alecto, not translate Logos as Word but keep it as Logos. At least then, if we are using techno-babble, there is a justification, I would say.

I presume the original justification for Muslims to learn the Qur’an in Arabic was that translations can get across the wrong nuance. However, that now has been reduced to a rote-learning exercise that seems to have no value whatsoever.

[Josh]

[alliebath]

I was not referring to the moment of change, necessarily, Josh as being the ecstasy, but rather that there has to be some sort of buzz in any real relationship—whether on a human scale or between human and divine. It is not necessarily there all the time or even at certain specific moments or times, but at sometime, some place or at any time and at any place it can be apparent. The ‘joy’ that Lewis talks about can be felt in many different ways.