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Logos

Logos

2 9.9
The Word of God seen as Jesus in Christian belief
  • noun
  • /ˈloʊɡɑs/
  • Formal
translation icon : Logos
  • A better paradigm was offered by Karl Rahner. He held that the Logos is understood in relation to all of reality, not just in relation to hearing the gospel, verbally spoken.
  • Logos-Spirit
  • Logos Christology
  • Logos is the Son

Examples

  • John takes the relationship of the Logos with God deeper only a few verses later.

    Blog text (18)

  • Beyond John's Christology of the Word or Logos, we see in the New Testament multiple titles for Jesus Christ and plural emergent Christologies.

    Academic text (2010)

  • The Son is the Logos in relation to the world.

    Academic text (1990)

  • So we even see these interesting icons where you find Jesus Christ walking in the Garden of Eden as the Logos, as God.

  • But this view is also incompatible with the Logos Christology of John.

    Academic text (1992)

  • Such love expresses itself in its Word, its Logos, its verbum spirans amorem, which is a judgment of value.

    Academic text (2006)

  • Western theology has linked the idea of rationality or intellect (nous) with the divine Logos rather than the Spirit.

    Academic text (2009)

  • Fourth, God was seen as so strongly present in the one who empowers the Jesus movement that the Spirit, Wisdom, or Logos of God is seen as descending to be present in the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus, Miriam's son.

    Academic text (2007)

  • The incarnation was not accidental to the eternal identity of Jesus as Logos and Son of the Father because the eternal Son of God was always to become incarnate, filius Dei incarnandus.

    Academic text (2009)

  • In Christian belief, the Logos is understood as the divine Word that became flesh in the person of Jesus Christ.

Synonyms

Jesus
vsLogos
∞ 1.0

A man Christians believe is the Son of God who teaches love and forgiveness

emphasizes the theological, incarnate status of that person rather than human role
Christ
vsLogos
∞ 3.5

Title for Jesus whom Christians accept as their savior and the Son of God

refers specifically to messiah role rather than to the theological Greek identity
Son
vsLogos
∞ 9.8

A Christian title for Jesus Christ as one of the three persons of God

is a Greek title used especially in theology for that same person
Word
vsLogos
  • Formal
272 9.9

God's Son who became human as Jesus

is the Greek theological term for the same divine person
Jesus Christ
vsLogos
134 3.0

A man Christians believe is God's son whose teachings started Christianity

focuses on the Greek theological identity of that same divine person

Surface Forms

Logos singular
Logoses plural
Logoi plural

Etymology

The word Logos comes from the Greek logos, which means 'word' or 'reason' and is the same root as logic. In Christian use Logos became the divine 'Word' — the idea that God's reason and message are made flesh in Jesus, which is why the Gospel of John calls Jesus the Logos.