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‖ Logos Theol. and Philos.|ˈlɒgɒs|
[Gr. λόγος word, speech, discourse, reason, f. λογ-, ablaut-variant of λεγ- in λέγ-ειν to say.]
A term used by Greek (esp. Hellenistic and Neo-Platonist) philosophers in certain metaphysical and theological applications developed from one or both of its ordinary senses ‘reason’ and ‘word’; also adopted in three passages of the Johannine writings of the N.T. (where the English versions render it by ‘Word’) as a designation of Jesus Christ; hence employed by Christian theologians, esp. those who were versed in Greek philosophy, as a title of the Second Person of the Trinity. By mod. writers the Gr. word is used untranslated in historical expositions of ancient philosophical speculation, and in discussions of the doctrine of the Trinity in its philosophical aspects.
1587Golding De Mornay v. 52 We cal him Logos, which some translate word or Speech, and othersom Reason. 1647H. More Song of Soul ii. i. xxiv. 79 That inward awfull Majestie Hight Logos, whom they term great sonne of God. 1720Waterland Eight Serm. 243 Origen..thence draws an Argument for the Eternity of the Logos or Word. 1831–3E. Burton Eccl. Hist. xvii. (1845) 375 Plato never imagined this Logos or Mind to be a person in the sense in which Christians believe the Son of God to be a person. a1834Coleridge Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 158 If Christ be that Logos or Word that was in the beginning. 1882S. D. F. Salmond in Encycl. Brit. XIV. 803/2 Heraclitus holds that nothing material can be thought of without this Logos, but he does not conceive the Logos itself to be immaterial. Ibid. 804/1 The Logos of the Stoics is a reason in the world gifted with intelligence, and analogous to the reason in man. Ibid., His [Philo's] Logos is the representative of the world to God as well as of God to the world.
b. attrib. and Comb.
1839I. Taylor Anc. Chr. I. ii. 150 Man..shall..under the conduct of the Logos-Redeemer, reascend to his source. 1865tr. Strauss's New Life Jesus I. i. vi. 30 They are mere explanations of the Logos-theory. 1874Supernatural Relig. II. iii. i. 340 The dogmatic system of the Logos Gospel did not admit of more than mere reference to it. 1883Schaff Hist. Ch. II. lxxii. 555 This extension of the Logos revelation explains the high estimate which some of the Greek fathers..put upon the Hellenic..philosophy.
Hence logos-ship, the dignity and office of the Logos.
1895Expositor Sept. 163 The logos-ship was attributed to Jesus. |