Logos
In Christian theology, the Word — the Son — through whom all things were made. In Maximus, the one Logos is also the source of the many logoi, the inner principles of creatures. Not the everyday “logo”, and not automatically a proof of the Trinity.
Greek logos, “word”, “reason”, or “account”.
Logos is "word" and "reason" and, in John 1, the one through whom all things were made — identified with the Son. Maximus takes that further: the one Logos contains the many logoi of creatures. Dyer-adjacent material in this corpus often treats "Logos" as the name of the order a rival worldview is said to be borrowing.
Autolinking is restricted to the capitalised form, because lowercase "logos" is ordinary English and a brand-word. Even the theological use does not, in the sources checked, prove the Trinity from reason alone. Lossky and Aquinas both deny that move; Swinburne's attempt is the one serious contemporary candidate and is contested (OTC-011).
The mistaken everyday reading is "logic" itself, or a slogan that already closes TAG. Logos-talk in this Library is a candidate ground, still under the same rubric as every other candidate.
Where this comes up
Sources
- John 1:1; Maximus, Ambiguum 7; Debby research packets OTC-001 and OTC-022