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Entry: Ralph Waldo and the Word Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/ralph_waldo_and_the_word#12737 Post contents: @ Mr Salvo, good on ya. @ Mr Purcell, "It seems to me that the the primary sense of Logos in Herakleitos, or even St. John, is not moral..." That's a good point worth considering, and it has helped me to clarify my mind. I think what I should have emphasised is that the Chinese concept of the Tao is "not Human", and that's the essential difference between the Tao versus Christ as the incarnate, Human, Word. In other words, the concept of the Tao, as long as it is uninformed by the Gospel that God became (and is eternally) Man, remains perilously non-Human. This is a pitfall into which all too many Western admirers of Oriental religions (of whom I am one) fall, unless they're well informed and very careful about the temptations Oriental religions pose to Westerners, including Christians, to believe in the heresy that Man is not the centre of God's creation. Sent at: 2008 11 23