RE: Translation for O LOGOS (John 1)?

Jim West (jwest@highland.net)
Sat, 11 Oct 1997 16:22:19 -0400 (EDT)

At 04:07 PM 10/11/97 -0400, you wrote:
>At 03:31 PM 10/11/97 -0400, Jim West wrote:
>
>>This translation is absolutely impossible on philological, etymological,
>>theological, and socio-liguistic grounds. A more inappropriate term could
>>not be found.
>
>I love challenges. How about "chicken-liver"?
>
>Jonathan
>

chicken liver at least has the benefit of being more in touch with the
"fleshly" material side of logos and does not connote a non-corporeal, non
substantial (in the philosophical sense of the term) idea such as "soul"
does!!!!

(though I must, it seems, go on the record as also opposing "chicken liver"
as a poor selection) :>)

Jim

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