Logos (Word)

• GENERAL:
  • Wikipedia entry
  • 1912 Catholic Encyclopedia: (Read with caution)
  • Renee Corinne Crawford: Logos. Emphasis on the use of the term in rhetoric. --- Georgia Tech
  • Heraclitus is the Greek philosopher most often said to have introduced the logos concept:
    • Heraclitus: Fragments on the Logos and the Unity of Opposites. Copyrighted Hooker translation 1995. --- WSU
• IN ORTHODOX THEOLOGY:
  • God the Father is not "alogos" ["wordless" or "irrational"]:
    • St. John Damascene, Fid. Orth, i. 6;
  • The Word is not something external to the Father, like a human's word:
    • St. John Damascene, Fid. Orth, i. 6;
  • The Word of God is not without subsistence or easily dissipated, like a human's word:
    • St. John Damascene, Fid. Orth, i. 6;
  • The word is neither wholly identical with the mind nor utterly diverse from it:
    • St. John Damascene, Fid. Orth, i. 6;