HO LOGOS - The Marshal(ler)
dalmatia at eburg.com
dalmatia at eburg.com
Wed Jul 8 13:39:31 EDT 1998
Carl W. Conrad wrote:
> The problem with "Marshal" is that it remains a limited version of LOGOS;
> it relies overmuch upon one etymological derivation of LOGOS from LEGW when
> others are possible and legitimate and despite the fact that usage within a
> cultural tradition and common parlance is a much more important factor in
> meaning conveyed by any particular word in a given context. The fact is
> that LOGOS has so rich a cultural heritage in both Greek philosophy and
> Jewish scripture that scholars cannot readily reach a clear consensus on
> which items, if any, of the two backgrounds, may legitimately be IGNORED in
> the endeavor to understand exactly what LOGOS means in the Johannine
> prologue.
That's the truth!! Thanks Carl.
When I first read John I was faced with trying, as a
non-Christian-educated reader, to render an understanding of LOGOS
from a Greek philosophical frame of reference. So I went to the word
KOSMOS ~ And in John there is no usage of its opposite, CAOS. LOGOS
would have made a great intermediary between KOSMOS and CAOS in Greek
cosmogony. But it simply is not there in John. So I muddled...
Established a back burner system of thinking so try somehow to make
sense of the text. Muddling and back burners are an integral part of
my thinking in John. For me, everything is tentative in understanding
this text.
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