# Theanthropos = Conciliator? *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 11 Jun 2002* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Adam Stephanides *11 Jun 2002, 14:01* > on 6/10/02 4:02 PM, James Jordan at jbjordan4 at cox.net wrote: > the aforementioned Theoanthropos, the > original Conciliator of which Severian is an application Do we know that the Theanthropos is the "original Conciliator"? It's been a long time since I read the books, but my impression had always been that Severian was the one and only Conciliator. --Adam --- ### James Jordan *11 Jun 2002, 14:46 · follows Adam Stephanides* > At 09:01 AM 6/11/2002 -0500, you wrote: > on 6/10/02 4:02 PM, James Jordan at jbjordan4 at cox.net wrote: >> the aforementioned Theoanthropos, the >> original Conciliator of which Severian is an application > Do we know that the Theanthropos is the "original Conciliator"? It's been a > long time since I read the books, but my impression had always been that > Severian was the one and only Conciliator. > > --Adam I was just going by the obvious reference to Christ, who reconciles humanity to God, and thus is the original conciliator. Nutria ---