Category:Logos (subject)

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Logos/Word

Overview

Logos, in ancient sources

Psalms

“By the Word (logos) of the Lord the heavens were made and all their host by the breath of his mouth… He spoke, and [the world] came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm” (Ps 33:6-9)

Philo

The Word is God in the act of creating the universe… Like an architect, who is about to built a city, God first made an incorporeal model in His own mind like a “son”, and then built the universe according to this image… The universe was made in the image of the image of God… The image of God is His logos or Wisdom… The Logos is the instrument that God used to create the universe; is the heavenly High Priest…

Justin Martyr

I shall give you another testimony, my friends, from the Scriptures, that God begot before all creatures a Beginning, [who was] a certain rational power [proceeding] from Himself, who is called by the Holy Spirit, now the Glory of the Lord, now the Son, again Wisdom, again an Angel, then God, and then Lord and Logos

References

• / [[]] / In: The Anchor Bible Dictionary (1992 Freedman), dictionary,

• Logos / Thomas H. Tobin / In: The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism (2010 Collins / Harlow), dictionary, 894-896

In Depth

• A (sources) -- survey of ancient sources

• A (arts) -- survey of fictional works

• A (research) -- survey of scholarly works

External links

• Wikipedia (logos) and Wikipedia (logos--Christianity)