单词 | skandalon |
释义 | skandalonn. Theology. A stumbling-block, cause of offence, scandal (sense 1b). ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > atheism > [noun] > occasion of or stumbling block offendiclec1400 offencec1475 scandal1582 skandalon1945 1945 Theology XLVIII. 104 Any particular ‘Thou’ may become a skandalon at any time. 1948 Scott. Jrnl. Theol. 1 113 It is not a truth which can be arrived at by scientific investigation, and on that account it is a scandalon to the scientist, and to this scientifically minded generation. 1957 Scott. Jrnl. Theol. 10 86 The scandalon of Christian faith is accepted, and the essay aims at being the account which biblical thinking must give of itself, taking itself seriously and simply. 1972 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Jan. 105/4 Belief in God is the skandalon barring men and women in their thousands from a secular faith in Jesus Christ. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1945 |
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