Logocentrism

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

david schrieb:

> Biblically, "The Word" can be understood to mean Revelation, that which is 
> revealed.  Implicit in this definition is the understanding that the 
> "Word's" message was previously hidden, occult, behind the veil.  The Word 
> is a powerful agent in that it exposes a hidden Truth.  Revelation is a 
> thought that cannot be deduced, is beyond the ken of the thinker.
>
> If one were to try to align "The Word" with one of the Trinity's three, the 
> "Holy Ghost" would be a good match, since the HG is the agent of Revelation, 
> the medium for God's communication with man.  Without the gift of Revelation 
> from the Christian God, human's are blind, deaf , and dumb.  That hidden 
> realm is purely invisible without a map given from above.

  
  "like the deus otiosus, or inactive god, of archaic mythology, the unknown and 
unknowable god, who is at the top of the divine pyramid gives the extra push 
that sets in motion the great machine of the cosmos and seems to have retired to 
his palace, inaccessible to humankind. the entities generated by him now have 
the task of of realizing concretely the plan conceived from the beginning of 
time. from among these entities there emerges a distinct deuteros logos, a 
second god, son and perfect image of the father: he is the logos (word) of the 
christians, the nous (mind) of the midddle platonists and of the gnostics. he 
has the dual function of manifesting and setting up the plan conceived by the 
father within the divine world and of realizing it in the external world (...) 
compared with the hellenistic saviours, the christian saviour was able to boast 
at least two radically new attributes. his act of salvation aimed at rescuing 
and preserving the higher spiritual principle of humankind, of all humanity. he 
therefore had to be a personal, historical saviour, embodying the essence of 
mediation in his nature of god and man." 

 (giovanni filoramo: a history of gnosticism, pp. 25ff.) 

kfl