The writer of the gospel of John, in re-framing the logos ideology of his time, expressed it in terms of relationship rather than reason and intimacy rather than order. The first Latin translators of the Johannine gospel understood this and translated logos as sermo which, in English, means something like an intimate conversation, a dynamic that holds together all things, a reciprocal relationship that evolves and connects. “In the beginning was the Conversation” produces an entirely different worldview where human beings value other voices in dialogue, whether of a different race, gender, or tribe, or a different species, and participates with the creative spirit alive in the Universe. Quantum biologists and evolutionary scientists use this precise language to describe the “deep conversation that holds our biosystems together.” Somehow the Johannine community intuited what scientists now understand but the Church continues to miss: the reality that we are all connected by a continuing Holy Conversation inside ourselves, between one another, with the cosmos, and with all non-human others.
Valerie Serrels and Victoria Loorz at Kosmos Journal for Global Transformation. Re-wilding Christianity: An Emerging Model of Regeneration for a Domesticated Church of Empire
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