Abstract

This paper is a review of the influence that lógos has had on ancient Greek, Jewish, and Christian writings. During the philosophical era known as Middle Platonism, the concept/ontology of the lógos played a unique role in enabling Pagan, Jewish, and Christian intellectuals to communicate on a small space of common ground.

Highlights

  • Ancient Greek philosophy bequeathed to subsequent cultures its unique methods of investigating the being of the universe through reason

  • This was the great philosophical quest—within all the Greek schools and for most religions as well. For those schools of thought that posited the necessity of an intersection, there was a problem about how this occurred and how far it occurred. This problem was only further compounded by the supposition that the material and mutable had its origin from the unseen and immutable, as one finds in Platonism and Judaism

  • A very similar conception is shared by Isocrates, which is that the lógos has a regulating function in that everything is governed and ordered by it

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Summary

Introduction

Ancient Greek philosophy bequeathed to subsequent cultures its unique methods of investigating the being of the universe through reason. The first has to do with proposing realities of stability and permanence in an ever changing world; the second is the problem of the “One and the Many”, that is, how to relate the diversity and plurality of visible things to an orderly and unified cosmos In their search for such principles, the Greeks argued that the cosmos—from stars to souls—was perfectly arranged, possessed coherence, and could be explained. Implicit to these problems was the most important question of all: how did the divine, or utterly transcendent, invisible, and immutable interface or intersect with the material, temporal, and mutable world. The lógos could serve as an ontological bridge connecting the seen and unseen realms

Pre-Socratics
Stoics
The Lógos of John and Greeks
The Christian Philosopher Justin
Shared Metaphysical and Ethical Ground
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