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'''Logos''': Greek, “word”, “reason”, “speech”, “account” | '''Logos''': Greek, “word”, “reason”, “speech”, “account” | ||
# reason or the manifestation of reason conceived in ancient Greek philosophy as constituting the controlling principle in the universe: | |||
## a moving and regulating principle in the universe together with an element in man by which according to Heraclitus this principle is perceived | |||
## a cosmic governing or generating principle according to the Stoics that is immanent and active in all reality and that pervades all reality | |||
## a principle that according to Philo is intermediate between ultimate or divine reality and the sensible world | |||
# the actively expressed creative revelatory thought and will of God identified in the prologue of the Gospel of [[John the Beloved|St. John]] and in various Christian doctrinal works with the second person of the [[Trinity]]. | |||
== See also == | == See also == | ||