Tuesday, July 24, 2007
This comment is by Mark Earley, president of Prison Fellowship. He was writing about the popularity of the Harry Potter series of books and other good fiction:
...Dickerson and O'Hara write, "Muthos [from which we get the word myth] originally meant 'word' or 'speech' and was a near synonym for logos—a word later used in the Gospel of John to describe Christ. . . . The distinction that eventually arose between the words was that muthos came to mean an account through story, while logos came to mean an account through reason or proposition." Great stories are even more closely related to the Gospel than we realize. No wonder that great stories are so enticing.
...Dickerson and O'Hara write, "Muthos [from which we get the word myth] originally meant 'word' or 'speech' and was a near synonym for logos—a word later used in the Gospel of John to describe Christ. . . . The distinction that eventually arose between the words was that muthos came to mean an account through story, while logos came to mean an account through reason or proposition." Great stories are even more closely related to the Gospel than we realize. No wonder that great stories are so enticing.
# posted by JEB : 7:10 AM
