Oddbean new post about login | logout Is Jesus Christ the Tao, and was Lao Tzu His prophet in China? https://image.nostr.build/faf7980e1dbfdb88414f7ecc6154beed7dfe20536a593d3831f9117717f22340.png Just found a cheap, used copy in great condition of *Christ the Eternal Tao* by Hieromonk Damascene (who sounds Orthodox; it remains to be seen if he is orthodox). The back cover states that > *Christ the Eternal Tao* shows Lao Tzu's Tao Teh Ching as a foreshadowing of what would be revealed by Christ, and Lao Tzu himself as a Far-Eastern prophet of the Incarnate God. 😲🧐 Has anyone already read it?
Sounds interesting! I have not, have not even read the Bible and Tao te ching but I plan to 😃
Actually this looks really weird to me, I have never seen anything like this before, to me Tao Te Ching and the Bible are completely two different things 🤔I can't even imagine how these two can be combined together, I would like to read this if I have any chances
Yeah, I'd like to see the case the author makes. I do find it interesting that when Bible translators in 1911 looked for the right word to translate "Logos", which refers to Jesus in John 1:1, they chose the word Tao. I have found the wisdom and philosophy in the Tao Te Ching intriguing. It's like natural law, or a human who didn't have special revelation of Yahweh trying to comprehend and explicate the universe and mind behind it. There's also this one podcast I once found regarding Christianity and Taoism: https://fountain.fm/show/80uIkFykT37lqDBZAw0n
As I can find, there's not much discussions or articles about this topic in Chinese websites, so it's really an interesting perspective on what I used to learn about^^ Thank you for presenting me this, I shall work on that later
I have read it, it is very well done. Heiromonk Damascene is Orthodox 👍
It is very Orthodox.
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There exists a Being undifferentiated and complete, Born before heaven and earth. Tranquil, boundless, Abiding alone and changing not, Encircling everything without exhaustion. Fathomless, it seems to be the Source of all things. I do not know its name, But characterize it as the Tao. Arbitrarily forcing a name upon it, I call it Great.... Tao Teh Ching, chapters 25 and 4 (Translated by Gi-ming Shien and Eugene Rose.)
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