Logos
/ˈlɒɡɒs
/noun [mass noun]
1 Theology The Word of God, or principle of divine reason and creative order, identified in the Gospel of John with the second person of the Trinity incarnate in Jesus Christ.This methodology then proceeds ‘downward’ to the Incarnation, to the event in which the Word or Logos became man in Jesus Christ....
- Early Christians claimed the truth of the creative and saving Logos wherever the good, the true, and the beautiful appeared.
- Why does the evangelist open his gospel by referring to Jesus as the Word or Logos of God?
2(In Jungian psychology) the principle of reason and judgement, associated with the animus. Often contrasted with Eros.The animus corresponds to the paternal Logos just as the anima corresponds to the maternal Eros.
Origin
Greek, 'word, reason'.
- take the bull by the horns
- take the cake
- take the chair
- take the chequered flag
- take the chill off
- take the count
- take the easy way out
- take the edge off
- take the fall
- take the field
- take the floor
- take the gilt off the gingerbread
- take the King's (or Queen's) shilling
- take the King's shilling
- take the law into one's own hands
- take the liberty
- take the long view
- take the mound
- take the (or one's etc.) secret to the grave
- take the part of
- take the piss (out of someone/thing)
- take the place of
- take the plunge
- take the rap
- take the rough with the smooth