The way we use intellect in modern English almost makes it *opposed* to nous.
Nous is the part of us with which we can know God.
But that is where so much of Western Christianity has gone totally off the rails: this weird idea that we can somehow know God through reason, or that reason is our highest human capacity.
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Date: 2022-08-31 10:26 pm (UTC)Nous is the part of us with which we can know God.
But that is where so much of Western Christianity has gone totally off the rails: this weird idea that we can somehow know God through reason, or that reason is our highest human capacity.