What's So Great About Ushas?

Jeff Wilson · 16 Jul 2008, 23:22 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:22:41 -0500
Subject: (urth) What's So Great About Ushas?
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brunians at brunians.org wrote:
> I am referring to the hierarchy of the great chain of being, as is David
> Duffy. This is an underlying assumption of the Christian worldview,
> although many modern Christians choose to deprecate it.
> 
> In this hierarchy, the World is assumed to be a living being, possessing
> an intelligence and a spirit as are all of the various levels of the
> World.

I've been a lifelong Christian, and this is the first I've heard the 
Great Chain of Being explicitly said to have a place in Christian 
doctrine. It certainly is not part of the Apostles's, Nicean, or 
Constantinoplean Creeds, or any other definitive statement of Christian 
belief I've seen.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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