Richard Stanley
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This New Thinking Allowed video discusses the Greek philosophical gloss in Christianity as well as making a distinction between the gospels and Paul's contribution. This discussion is complementary to what I have discussed on this thread via Fideler's work, Jesus Christ, Sun of God.
Grimes take on the Logos as Self is rather unique, and makes a lot of sense. And opens a possibility of interpreting the Gospel of John dramatically different, and Grimes discusses the impact of its mistranslations.
He discusses the pagan gods in the same manner as I do, that a respective pantheon represents different 'principles' via each member god or goddess at the higher philosophical or esoteric level. He relates the Greek gods to the Hindu. Grimes briefly discusses the relationship of Jewish kabbalah to the Greek system.
And from an outflow a mention of the Greek's use of their 'article' for our 'the' there is a very interesting brief discussion of the dynamic conceptual importance of the English definitive article "the". Mentioned is that such as the Russian consider the use of articles very subversive, seriously. I know that it is a difficult concept for such as Russians to make use of definitive 'the' and general 'a' when learning English, they frequently omit them or use the wrong one.
At ~37 minutes Grimes makes a distinction between the sacrifice(s) (Isaac and Jesus) with that of Prometheus, and says that we really need the mythos of Prometheus ... the tools to free mankind of the drudgery of ... menial labor. And then a short mention of the UBI and automation.
And the same corruption of John is found in the translations of Plato.
Grimes take on the Logos as Self is rather unique, and makes a lot of sense. And opens a possibility of interpreting the Gospel of John dramatically different, and Grimes discusses the impact of its mistranslations.
He discusses the pagan gods in the same manner as I do, that a respective pantheon represents different 'principles' via each member god or goddess at the higher philosophical or esoteric level. He relates the Greek gods to the Hindu. Grimes briefly discusses the relationship of Jewish kabbalah to the Greek system.
And from an outflow a mention of the Greek's use of their 'article' for our 'the' there is a very interesting brief discussion of the dynamic conceptual importance of the English definitive article "the". Mentioned is that such as the Russian consider the use of articles very subversive, seriously. I know that it is a difficult concept for such as Russians to make use of definitive 'the' and general 'a' when learning English, they frequently omit them or use the wrong one.
At ~37 minutes Grimes makes a distinction between the sacrifice(s) (Isaac and Jesus) with that of Prometheus, and says that we really need the mythos of Prometheus ... the tools to free mankind of the drudgery of ... menial labor. And then a short mention of the UBI and automation.
And the same corruption of John is found in the translations of Plato.
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