Mythos (myth, symbol and ritual) and Logos (science and reason) are complementary. Karen Armstrong’s essay explains how modernity’s conflation and imbalance of these approaches has been detrimental to faith and religion.
Mythos (myth, symbol and ritual) and Logos (science and reason) are complementary. Karen Armstrong’s essay explains how modernity’s conflation and imbalance of these approaches has been detrimental to faith and religion.
The essay explores analogies between interpretation of the Homeric poems in the ancient Hellenic philosophical ‘paideia’ and that of the Qur’an in the Islamic tradition.
