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60-428: (Redirected from The Words ) The Word or The Words may refer to: Christian faith [ edit ] Logos (Christianity) , a name and title for Jesus Christ The Bible , a collection of sacred texts central to Christianity The Word Bible Software , a Bible study software Media [ edit ] The Word (novel) , a 1972 novel by Irving Wallace, and

120-485: A 1955 Danish film The Words (film) , 2012 American film Music [ edit ] The Word (band) , a blues/jam rock group "The Word" (song) , a 1965 song by The Beatles "The Word", a 2007 song by Patti Scialfa from the album Play It as It Lays "The Word", a 2001 song by Sara Groves from the album Conversations "The Words", a 2022 song by Anaïs Mitchell from the album Anaïs Mitchell Other uses [ edit ] The Word Bookstore ,

180-434: A 1978 TV miniseries adaptation The Word (radio programme) , a BBC World Service book programme The Word (TV series) , a British series "The Word" ( The Handmaid's Tale ) , a television episode "The Words" ( The Amazing World of Gumball ) , a television episode The Wørd, a recurring segment on The Colbert Report TV series The Word (UK magazine) , a music magazine The Word (Belgian magazine) ,

240-422: A consequence, its criterion and goal. The Christian faith inclines toward this second thesis, thus having, from the purely philosophical point of view, really good cards to play, despite the fact that many today consider only the first thesis as the only modern and rational one par excellence. However, a reason that springs from the irrational, and that is, in the final analysis, itself irrational, does not constitute

300-641: A distinction between "Jesus, the Son of the Creator" and "the Christ from above" and said that "after [Jesus'] baptism, Christ descended upon him in the form of a dove from the Supreme Ruler." But, after "Christ departed from Jesus ... Jesus suffered and rose again." Irenaeus wrote that John wrote these verses to refute these errors and to state: "That there is one Almighty God, who made all things by His Word," and "That by

360-504: A helper in the things that were created by Him, and by Him He made all things ... Not as the poets and writers of myths talk of the sons of gods begotten from intercourse [with women], but as truth expounds, the Word, that always exists, residing within the heart of God. For before anything came into being He had Him as a counsellor, being His own mind and thought. But when God wished to make all that He determined on, He begot this Word, uttered,

420-449: A lifestyle, photography and art magazine The Word (US magazine) , a 19th-century anarchist free love magazine edited by Ezra and Angela Heywood The Words (book) , a 1963 autobiography by Jean-Paul Sartre The Word Network , a religious broadcasting network Film [ edit ] The Word (1943 film) , a 1943 Swedish drama film The Word (1953 film) , a 1953 documentary film The Word (1955 film) or Ordet ,

480-661: A philosophy and poetry bookstore in Montreal The Word (library) , South Shields Logos (Greek) See also [ edit ] Word (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Word . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Word&oldid=1258582873 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

540-448: A solution for our problems. Only creative reason, which in the crucified God is manifested as love, can really show us the way. In the so necessary dialogue between secularists and Catholics, we Christians must be very careful to remain faithful to this fundamental line: to live a faith that comes from the "Logos", from creative reason, and that, because of this, is also open to all that is truly rational. Catholics may use Logos to refer to

600-544: A student of Polycarp ( c.  pre-69 –156), John the Apostle wrote these words specifically to refute the teachings of Cerinthus , who both resided and taught at Ephesus , the city John settled in following his return from exile on Patmos . While Cerinthus claimed that the world was made by "a certain Power far separated from ... Almighty God", John, according to Irenaeus, by means of John 1:1-5, presented Almighty God as

660-406: Is common, as for Burmese , for instance. In Modern Greek , the letters ⟨η, ι, υ⟩ and the letter combinations ⟨ει, oι, υι⟩ are pronounced [i] (except when pronounced as semivowels ), and a modern transcription renders them as ⟨i⟩. However, a transliteration distinguishes them; for example, by transliterating them as ⟨ē, i, y⟩ and ⟨ei, oi, yi⟩. (As the ancient pronunciation of ⟨η⟩ was [ɛː] , it

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720-419: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Logos (Christianity) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. In these translations, Word is used for Λόγος , although the term is often used transliterated but untranslated in theological discourse. According to Irenaeus of Lyon ( c.  130 –202),

780-535: Is evil, and that therefore the man Jesus could not be God. Neither did it accept any of the Platonic beliefs that would have made Jesus something less than fully God and fully human at the same time. The original teaching of John's gospel is, "In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God. ... And the Logos became flesh and dwelt among us." The final Christology of Chalcedon (confirmed by

840-458: Is identified as King of Kings, and Lord of Lords: He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God ... And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written, " king of kings, and lord of lords ". John 1's subject is developed in the First Epistle of John (1 John). Similar to John 1:1-5, 1 John 1:1 also refers to the beginning ( archē ) and to

900-520: Is meant by the Son, I will state briefly that He is the first product of the Father, not as having been brought into existence (for from the beginning, God, who is the eternal mind [ Nous ], had the Word in Himself, being from eternity rational [ Logikos ]; but inasmuch as He came forth to be the idea and energizing power of all material things, which lay like a nature without attributes, and an inactive earth,

960-559: Is often transliterated as ⟨ē⟩.) On the other hand, ⟨αυ, ευ, ηυ⟩ are pronounced /af, ef, if/ , and are voiced to [av, ev, iv] when followed by a voiced consonant – a shift from Ancient Greek /au̯, eu̯, iu̯/ . A transliteration would render them all as ⟨au, eu, iu⟩ no matter the environment these sounds are in, reflecting the traditional orthography of Ancient Greek, yet a transcription would distinguish them, based on their phonemic and allophonic pronunciations in Modern Greek. Furthermore,

1020-571: Is opposed to letter transcription , which is a letter by letter conversion of one language into another writing system. Still, most systems of transliteration map the letters of the source script to letters pronounced similarly in the target script, for some specific pair of source and target language. Transliteration may be very close to letter-by-letter transcription if the relations between letters and sounds are similar in both languages. For many script pairs, there are one or more standard transliteration systems. However, unsystematic transliteration

1080-415: Is the logos implies that God's immanence in the world is his rationality". Transliterated Transliteration is a type of conversion of a text from one script to another that involves swapping letters (thus trans- + liter- ) in predictable ways, such as Greek ⟨ α ⟩ → ⟨ a ⟩ , Cyrillic ⟨ д ⟩ → ⟨ d ⟩ , Greek ⟨ χ ⟩ →

1140-414: Is transliterated ⟨D⟩ though pronounced as [ð] , and ⟨η⟩ is transliterated ⟨ī⟩ , though it is pronounced [i] (exactly like ⟨ι⟩ ) and is not long . Transcription , conversely, seeks to capture sound, but phonetically approximate it into the new script; ⟨ Ελληνική Δημοκρατία ⟩ corresponds to [eliniˈci ðimokraˈtia] in

1200-515: The Imperial cult , Christians were suffering persecution as "atheists". Therefore the early Christian apologist Athenagoras ( c.  133  – c.  190 ), in his Embassy or Plea to the emperors Marcus Aurelius and his son Commodus in defense of Christianity (c. 176), makes an expression of the Christian faith against this claim. As a part of this defense, he articulates

1260-527: The International Phonetic Alphabet . While differentiation is lost in the case of [i] , note the allophonic realization of /k/ as a palatalized [c] when preceding front vowels /e/ and /i/ . Angle brackets ⟨ ⟩ may be used to set off transliteration, as opposed to slashes / / for phonemic transcription and square brackets for phonetic transcription. Angle brackets may also be used to set off characters in

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1320-483: The Russian term ⟨ Российская Республика ⟩ , which is usually translated as ' Russian Republic ', can be transliterated either as ⟨Rossiyskaya Respublika⟩ or alternatively as ⟨Rossijskaja Respublika⟩ . Transliteration is the process of representing or intending to represent a word, phrase, or text in a different script or writing system. Transliterations are designed to convey

1380-512: The Stoic concept of the Logos to his advantage as a way of arguing for Christianity to non-Jews. Since a Greek audience would accept this concept, his argument could concentrate on identifying this Logos with Jesus. Theophilus, the Patriarch of Antioch (died c.  180 ) in his Apology to Autolycus also identifies the Logos as the Son of God, who was at one time internal within the Father, but

1440-521: The Third Council of Constantinople ) was that Jesus Christ is both God and man, and that these two natures are inseparable, indivisible, unconfused, and unchangeable. On April 1, 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (who became Pope Benedict XVI just over two weeks later) referred to the Christian religion as the religion of the Logos: Christianity must always remember that it is the religion of

1500-640: The soft palate but on the uvula , but the pronunciation varies between different dialects of Arabic . The letter is sometimes transliterated into "g", sometimes into "q" or " ' " (for in Egypt it is silent) and rarely even into "k" in English. Another example is the Russian letter "Х" (kha) . It is pronounced as the voiceless velar fricative /x/ , like the Scottish pronunciation of ⟨ch⟩ in "lo ch ". This sound

1560-461: The "Logos". It is faith in the "Creator Spiritus", in the Creator Spirit, from which proceeds everything that exists. Today, this should be precisely its philosophical strength, in so far as the problem is whether the world comes from the irrational, and reason is not, therefore, other than a "sub-product", on occasion even harmful of its development or whether the world comes from reason, and is, as

1620-459: The Apostle John's disciple, Polycarp , identifies the Logos as Jesus, by whom all things were made, and who before his incarnation appeared to men in the theophany , conversing with the pre-Mosaic Patriarchs , with Moses at the burning bush, with Abraham at Mamre , and elsewhere, manifesting to them the unseen things of the Father. After these things, the Logos became man and suffered

1680-587: The Creator ;– "by His Word." And while Cerinthus made a distinction between the man Jesus and "the Christ from above", who descended on the man Jesus at his baptism , John, according to Irenaeus, presented the pre-existent Word and Jesus Christ as one and the same. A figure in the Book of Revelation is called "The Word of God", being followed by "the armies which are in heaven" (Rev 19:13–14). Stephen L. Harris claims that John adapted Philo 's concept of

1740-445: The Father, by His power and will, but not by abscission, as if the essence of the Father were divided; as all other things partitioned and divided are not the same after as before they were divided: and, for the sake of example, I took the case of fires kindled from a fire, which we see to be distinct from it, and yet that from which many can be kindled is by no means made less, but remains the same. In his First Apology , Justin used

1800-412: The Father, when He chooses, say they, causes His power to spring forth, and when He chooses, He makes it return to Himself ... And that this power which the prophetic word calls God ... is not numbered [as different] in name only like the light of the sun but is indeed something numerically distinct, I have discussed briefly in what has gone before; when I asserted that this power was begotten from

1860-558: The Glory of the Lord, now the Son, again Wisdom, again an Angel, then God, and then Lord and Logos; In his Dialogue with Trypho , Justin relates how Christians maintain that the Logos, ... is indivisible and inseparable from the Father, just as they say that the light of the sun on earth is indivisible and inseparable from the sun in the heavens; as when it sinks, the light sinks along with it; so

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1920-470: The Logos appears as a divine emanation or aeon of the great spirit or Monad and mingles with the primordial Adam . The First Council of Constantinople of 381 decreed that the Logos is God, begotten and therefore distinguishable from the Father, but, being God, of the same substance (essence). Photinus denied that the Logos as the Wisdom of God had an existence of its own before the birth of Christ. Post-apostolic Christian writers struggled with

1980-618: The Logos with the Angel of the Lord , and he also identified the Logos with the many other theophanies of the Old Testament, and used this as a way of arguing for Christianity to Jews: 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

2040-568: The Logos, identifying Jesus as an incarnation of the divine Logos that formed the universe. While John 1:1 is generally considered the first mention of the Logos in the New Testament , arguably, the first reference occurs in the book of Revelation. In it the Logos is spoken of as "the Word of God", who at the Second Coming rides a white horse into the Battle of Armageddon wearing many crowns, and

2100-429: The Son of God is the Word [ Logos ] of the Father, in idea and in operation; for after the pattern of Him and by Him were all things made, the Father and the Son being one. And, the Son being in the Father and the Father in the Son, in oneness and power of spirit, the understanding [ Nous ] and reason [ Logos ] of the Father is the Son of God. But if, in your surpassing intelligence, it occurs to you to inquire what

2160-566: The Spirit ( Pnéumati ) of His mouth The first extant Christian reference to the Logos found in writings outside of the New Testament belongs to John's disciple Ignatius ( c. 35–108), Bishop of Antioch , who in his epistle to the Magnesians , writes, "there is one God, who has manifested Himself by Jesus Christ His Son, who is His eternal Word, not proceeding forth from silence," (i.e., there

2220-587: The Word ( ho lógos ). 1 John 1 does not refer to the creation (see John 1:3) but expands on two other concepts found in John 1:4, namely that of life and of light (1 John 1:1–2, 5–7). It therefore seems as if only the first clause of 1 John 1:1 "What was from the beginning" refers to the pre-incarnate Word. The rest of 1 John 1 describes the incarnate Word: That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning

2280-446: The Word of life. Like John 1:1-5, Luke 1:1-2 also refers to the beginning and to the word : Luke 1:1-2 ... compile an account of the things accomplished among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the beginning ( archē ) were eyewitnesses and servants of the word ( lógos ). David Lyle Jeffrey and Leon Morris have seen in "the word" a reference to Jesus Christ. However, this reference did not depict

2340-434: The Word, through whom God made the creation, He also bestowed salvation on the men." Therefore, while Cerinthus claimed that the world was made by "a certain Power far separated from" an almighty God, John, according to Irenaeus, by means of John 1:1-5, presented Almighty God as the Creator – "by His Word." And while Cerinthus made a distinction between the man Jesus and "the Christ from above," who descended on

2400-459: The connection in To Autolycus 1:7. Irenaeus of Lyon explained Psalm 33:6 as that the "One God, the Father, not made, invisible, creator of all things ... created the things that were made ... by [the] Word" and "adorned all things ... by [the] Spirit." He added, "fittingly is the Word called the Son, and the Spirit the Wisdom of God." Origen of Alexandria likewise sees in it

2460-514: The death of the cross. In his Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching , Irenaeus defines the second point of the faith, after the Father, as this: The Word of God, Son of God, Christ Jesus our Lord, who was manifested to the prophets according to the form of their prophesying and according to the method of the dispensation of the Father: through whom all things were made; who also at the end of

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2520-493: The digraph ⟨ ch ⟩ , Armenian ⟨ ն ⟩ → ⟨ n ⟩ or Latin ⟨ æ ⟩ → ⟨ ae ⟩ . For instance, for the Greek term ⟨ Ελληνική Δημοκρατία ⟩ , which is usually translated as ' Hellenic Republic ', the usual transliteration into the Latin script ( romanization ) is ⟨Hellēnikḗ Dēmokratía⟩ ; and

2580-430: The doctrine of the Logos, expressing the paradox of the Logos being both the Son of God as well as God the Son, and of the Logos being both the Son of the Father as well as being one with the Father, saying, Who, then, would not be astonished to hear men called atheists who speak of God the Father, and of God the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, and who declare both their power in union and their distinction in order? ...

2640-409: The fathers." According to Irenaeus, John wrote John 1:1-5 to refute errors proclaimed by Cerinthus. The latter taught "that the world was not made by the primary God, but by a certain Power far separated from him. ... He represented Jesus as having not been born of a virgin, but as being the son of Joseph and Mary according to the ordinary course of human generation." Furthermore, Cerinthus made

2700-471: The first-born of all creation, not Himself being emptied of the Word [Reason], but having begotten Reason, and always conversing with His Reason. He sees in the text of Psalm 33:6 the operation of the Trinity, following the early practice as identifying the Holy Spirit as the Wisdom ( sophía ) of God when he writes that "God by His own Word and Wisdom made all things; for by His Word were the heavens made, and all

2760-460: The grosser particles being mixed up with the lighter... Athenagoras further appeals to the joint rule of the Roman emperor with his son Commodus, as an illustration of the Father and the Word, his Son, to whom he maintains all things are subjected, saying, For as all things are subservient to you, father and son, who have received the kingdom from above (for "the king's soul is in the hand of God," says

2820-436: The host of them by the Spirit of His mouth" So he expresses in his second letter to Autolycus, "In like manner also the three days which were before the luminaries, are types of the Trinity, of God, and His Word, and His wisdom." By the third quarter of the second century, persecution had been waged against Christianity in many forms. Because of their denial of the Roman gods , and their refusal to participate in sacrifices of

2880-457: The initial letter ⟨h⟩ reflecting the historical rough breathing ⟨ ̔⟩ in words such as ⟨Hellēnikḗ⟩ would intuitively be omitted in transcription for Modern Greek, as Modern Greek no longer has the /h/ sound. A simple example of difficulties in transliteration is the Arabic letter qāf . It is pronounced, in literary Arabic, approximately like English [k], except that the tongue makes contact not on

2940-698: The man Jesus at his baptism, John, according to Irenaeus, presented the pre-existent Word and Jesus Christ as one and the same. The mixing of pagan and Christian thought was characteristic of Alexandrian learning and featured in the works of Cyril of Alexandria and Didymus the Blind . In the Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit (also known as the Gospel of the Egyptians), a text from early Christian Gnosticism ,

3000-511: The moral law written in human hearts. This meaning comes from Jeremiah 31:33 (prophecy of new covenant): "I will write my law on their hearts." Saint Justin wrote that those who have not accepted Christ but follow the moral law of their hearts (Logos) follow God, because it is God who has written the moral law in each person's heart. Although man may not explicitly recognize God, he has the spirit of Christ if he follows Jesus' moral laws, written in his heart. Michael Heller has argued "that Christ

3060-616: The operation of the Trinity , a mystery intimated beforehand by the Psalmist David. Augustine of Hippo considered that in Psalms 33:6 both logos and pneuma were "on the verge of being personified". Τῷ Λόγῳ τοῦ Κυρίου οἱ Οὐρανοὶ ἐστερεώθησαν, καὶ τῷ Πνεύματι τοῦ στόματος αὐτοῦ πᾶσα ἡ δύναμις Αὐτῶν By the Word ( Lógo ) of the Lord were the Heavens established, and all the host of them by

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3120-400: The original script. Conventions and author preferences vary. Systematic transliteration is a mapping from one system of writing into another, typically grapheme to grapheme. Most transliteration systems are one-to-one , so a reader who knows the system can reconstruct the original spelling. Transliteration, which adapts written form without altering the pronunciation when spoken out,

3180-494: The pronunciation of the original word in a different script, allowing readers or speakers of that script to approximate the sounds and pronunciation of the original word. Transliterations do not change the pronunciation of the word. Thus, in the Greek above example, ⟨λλ⟩ is transliterated ⟨ll⟩ though it is pronounced exactly the same way as [l] , or the Greek letters, ⟨λλ⟩ . ⟨Δ⟩

3240-407: The prophetic Spirit), so to the one God and the Word proceeding from Him, the Son, apprehended by us as inseparable from Him, all things are in like manner subjected. In this defense he uses terminology common with the philosophies of his day ( Nous, Logos, Logikos, Sophia ) as a means of making the Christian doctrine relatable to the philosophies of his day. Irenaeus (c. 130–202), a student of

3300-560: The question of the identity of Jesus and the Logos, but the Church's doctrine never changed its claim that Jesus was the Logos. Each of the first six ecumenical councils defined Jesus Christ as fully God and fully human, from the First Council of Nicea (325) to the Third Council of Constantinople (680–681). Christianity did not accept the Platonic argument that the spirit is good and the flesh

3360-542: The same significant theology of the Logos as depicted in the gospel of John. In context, it is referring to the gospel message about Jesus and his teaching, rather than his title or identity. Certain references to the term logos in the Septuagint in Christian theology are taken as prefiguring New Testament usage such as Psalm 33 :6, which relates directly to the Genesis creation narrative . Theophilus of Antioch references

3420-458: The things which have been made cannot have this term applied to them, neither should they justly assume that appellation which belongs to the Creator. Again, in his fourth book against heresies, after identifying Christ as the Word, who spoke to Moses at the burning bush, he writes, "Christ Himself, therefore, together with the Father, is the God of the living, who spoke to Moses, and who was manifested to

3480-552: The times, to complete and gather up all things, was made man among men, visible and tangible, in order to abolish death and show forth life and produce a community of union between God and man. Irenaeus writes that Logos is and always has been the Son, is uncreated, eternally-coexistent and one with the Father, to whom the Father spoke at creation saying, "Let us make man." As such he distinguishes between creature and creator, so that He indeed who made all things can alone, together with His Word, properly be termed God and Lord: but

3540-618: Was begotten by the Father before creation: And first, they taught us with one consent that God made all things out of nothing; for nothing was coeval with God: but He being His own place, and wanting nothing, and existing before the ages, willed to make man by whom He might be known; for him, therefore, He prepared the world. For he that is created is also needy; but he that is uncreated stands in need of nothing. God, then, having His own Word internal within His own bowels, begot Him, emitting Him along with His own wisdom before all things. He had this Word as

3600-516: Was not a time when he did not exist). In similar fashion, he speaks to the Ephesians of the son being "possessed both of flesh and spirit; both made and not made; God existing in flesh; true life in death; both of Mary and of God; first passible and then impassible". Following John 1, the early Christian apologist Justin Martyr (c. 150) identifies Jesus as the Logos. Like Philo, Justin also identified

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