What happens when our understanding of the world is split into the competing camps of science and religion?
In the first part of this article series, we talked about the difference between logos and mythos, and said that both were forms of knowledge that were necessary for our human survival. In the modern world, though, logos had come to dominate thinking to the exclusion of all other methodologies, and that this was impoverishing our collective life and communities.
Essentially, logos explains how things happens (so it’s most readily, but not exclusively, identifiable with science), and mythos explains why things happen; in other words, the origins of things (and so is most readily, but not exclusively, identifiable with religion)….