Letter: YOUR SHOUT - Letter created a false impression 1 STAR Edition

JOHN Boak's letter (Evening Chronicle, Dec 24) referring to the TV series Earth, while rightly emphasising the wonder of the Earth's interactive mechanisms, is quite mistaken about God. Rather, men of God in ancient times used mythological narratives to teach in symbolic mode what they per...

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Published inEvening chronicle (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England)
Main Author Lovejoy, John G
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK) MGN Ltd 05.01.2008
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Boak, JOHN
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Summary:JOHN Boak's letter (Evening Chronicle, Dec 24) referring to the TV series Earth, while rightly emphasising the wonder of the Earth's interactive mechanisms, is quite mistaken about God. Rather, men of God in ancient times used mythological narratives to teach in symbolic mode what they perceived to be the truth about man's situation in relation to God, to the natural order and to his own innermost self. Moreover, the Greek of the Bible has two words for life' - bios and zoe.
ISSN:0960-3573