Editing Tao (section)

===Christianity===
Noted Christian author [[C.S. Lewis]] used the word Tao to describe "the doctrine of objective value, the belief that certain attitudes are really true, and others really false, the kind of thing the Universe is and the kind of things we are."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lewis |first=C.S. |title=[[The Abolition of Man]] |page=18}}</ref> He asserted that every religion and philosophy contains foundations of universal ethics as an attempt to line up with the Tao—the way mankind was designed to be. In Lewis's thinking, [[God in Christianity|God]] created the Tao and fully displayed it through the person of [[Jesus Christ]].

Similarly, Eastern Orthodox [[hegumen]] Damascene (Christensen), a pupil of noted monastic and scholar of East Asian religions [[Seraphim Rose]], identified ''logos'' with the Tao. Damascene published a full commented translation of the ''[[Tao Te Ching]]'' under the title ''Christ the Eternal Tao''.{{sfnp|Damascene|2012|p={{page needed|date=April 2024}}}}

In some Chinese translations of the New Testament, the word {{lang|grc|λόγος}} (''[[logos]]'') is translated as {{zhi|c=道}}, in passages such as [[Gospel of John|John]] 1:1, indicating that the translators considered the concept of Tao to be somewhat equivalent to the Hellenic concept of ''logos'' in [[Platonism]] and Christianity.{{sfnp|Zheng|2017|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=M9YkDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA187 187]}}