![]() ![]() If that is the reason, then it was another masterstroke to open the Greek-influenced mind to the reception of the Gospel: it would also explain why his gospel starts the way it does. ![]() John gets around it by saying Jesus Christ is their "Logos". The Apostle Paul, in opening his message to the Athenians, on Mars Hill, masterfully got around this problem by saying he was just going to tell them how to better to worship one of their own gods. But to introduce an entirely new god was entirely unacceptable. Whenever some new eastern religion came along the Athenians would see if the new god was actually one of their accepted gods but just with a different name: Such was OK. The accusers cited two impious acts by Socrates: "failing to acknowledge the gods that the city acknowledges" and "introducing new deities". Thus, famously, Socrates in 399 BC was sentenced to death: He may have done this because, in the Greek culture for hundreds of years beforehand, introducing a new god was heresy, it was strictly frowned upon: In Athens for some time it was a capital offence. Summary question: What is the connection between the "Logos" of Greek philosophy and the "Logos" of John's Gospel? Are they meant to be the same thing? Are they meant to be entirely different? Are they supposed to be similar but not identical?īy using the term "Logos" the author of John's Gospel intends to explain the Lord Jesus Christ in terms of Greek philosophical ideas current at the time. Personally I dispute that this is the "Christian" meaning, and I reckon that there are a lot of deep connections to be had between Christianity and Greek Philosophy if we ponder "logos" within it's original cultural context and meaning. Some Christians I've spoken to reckon that all that Greek philosophy is irrelevant and that we should only focus on the "Christian" meaning of the word, which is simply "Word", nothing more or less than that. Most (English speaking) Christians I've spoken to don't seem aware or concerned by the fact that this Greek word "logos" has much more significance than the English word "Word". This leads me to wonder, what is the relationship between the "logos" of Greek philosophy and the "logos" as used in Johns Gospel? Why did the author of Johns Gospel use that particular word? Was it their intention to import all of the Greek philosophical baggage that was associated with the term into Christianity? Or were they attempting to completely redefine the word? "Word" is such a mundane word compared to "Logos" which is rich in meaning and comes loaded with 500 years of philosophical baggage. I've always suspected that a lot of information is lost when translating Johns Gospel to English where they translate "Logos" as "Word". The Author of John's Gospel picks up on this "logos" idea and claims that the logos "was in the beginning with God", that the logos "was God", and that the logos "became flesh and dwelt among us". The idea was subsequently developed further by other philosophers such as Aristotle. The app supports output as vector graphics or to Photoshop, and contains enough decent looking clip art to keep you from searching all over for what you need.The first known mention of the "logos" was by Greek philosopher Heraclitus who lived around 535 - 475 BC. It's also pretty easy to create something from scratch, and there are complete instructions built into the app, but if you are like me you'll start out with the templates. That's just a matter of replacing the sample text, moving some elements around, tweaking colors and modifying where shadows fall. I created some simple logos from the included templates while testing the app today. Smart Presets: Pre-Configured presets for christmas cards, birthday cards, logos, photo collages.Flexible boolean operations (even multiple) for all paths (Path A + Path B - Path C = Path D).I took a look at the original version more than two years ago, and the new version is completely rewritten and far more powerful. Logoist 2 (introductory price of US$14.99 on the Mac App Store) is a terrific logo creation program that can help you turn out professional looking logos for stationary, presentations, invitations, postcards, just about anything where you need something artful. ![]()
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