Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun In pre-Socratic philosophy, the principle governing the cosmos, the source of this principle, or human reasoning about the cosmos.
- noun Among the Sophists, the topics of rational argument or the arguments themselves.
- noun In Stoicism, the active, material, rational principle of the cosmos; nous. Identified with God, it is the source of all activity and generation and is the power of reason residing in the human soul.
- noun In biblical Judaism, the word of God, which itself has creative power and is God's medium of communication with the human race.
- noun In Hellenistic Judaism, a hypostasis associated with divine wisdom.
- noun Christianity In Saint John's Gospel, especially in the prologue (1:1–14), the creative word of God, which is itself God and incarnate in Jesus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In theology, the Divine Word; the transcendent Divine Reason as expressed in a distinct personality; the Second Person in the Trinity, both before and after the incarnation: so called as expressing God both to God himself and to his creatures, as language expresses reason and as reason is expressed by language.
- noun In the philosophy of Heraclitus and the Stoics, the rational principle that governs and develops the universe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A word; reason; speech.
- noun The divine Word; Christ.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Yet the gospels were written in Greek, notes Benedict, and he goes on to explain, in so many words, how the Christian concept of the logos – in the beginning, writes Saint John, was the Logos – assumes a rational, benevolent God.
Regensburg Redux 2006
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Insofar as the Bible is the word of God, it might all be considered logos = CSI but not Logos - Dembski reserves the capitalized version for the most important cases including Genesis.
Yet another version of the origins of ID - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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This occurs even in the thought, "[Greek: ho logos sarx egeneto]," which in itself is foreign to the Logos conception.
History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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What logos, _about_ this Logos, have they learned, or can they teach?
Val d'Arno John Ruskin 1859
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C. 1. logos applied without qualification to Christ incarnate; in eucharistic context; 2. of divine person of Christ in relation to humanity; 3. doctrine that Logos occupied place of human soul in Christ
Maggie's Farm 2008
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C. 1. logos applied without qualification to Christ incarnate; in eucharistic context; 2. of divine person of Christ in relation to humanity; 3. doctrine that Logos occupied place of human soul in Christ
Maggie's Farm 2008
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C. 1. logos applied without qualification to Christ incarnate; in eucharistic context; 2. of divine person of Christ in relation to humanity; 3. doctrine that Logos occupied place of human soul in Christ
Maggie's Farm 2008
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The Hebrew term implicitly translated by the Greek word Logos is Davar.
David Shasha: Monolingualism, Scriptural Translation and the Problem of Western Civilization David Shasha 2010
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The Hebrew term implicitly translated by the Greek word Logos is Davar.
David Shasha: Monolingualism, Scriptural Translation and the Problem of Western Civilization David Shasha 2010
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The Hebrew term implicitly translated by the Greek word Logos is Davar.
David Shasha: Monolingualism, Scriptural Translation and the Problem of Western Civilization David Shasha 2010
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