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Tim Limkeman

Heraclitus and the Birth of the Logos - Modern Stoicism - 1 views

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Philosophy Theology Heraclitus Logos

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  • It is our nature to separate things into parts, to make distinctions, but if there were a Supreme Being, is this the way it would see the universe?
  • No, says Heraclitus: “Listening not to me but to the Logos, it is wise to acknowledge that all things are one.”
  • Heraclitus seems to contradict himself on whether there is a God. The Logos is not God as such, and in some statements he sees the universe as a kind of self-perpetuating mechanism that “has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be – an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures.”
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  • he clearly says that there is a divine mind with an intelligent purpose, in contrast to the blindness of man: “Man is not rational; only what encompasses him is intelligent.”
  • Our minds are so fixed on the material that we take this relative level of reality to be everything, yet there is an absolute reality that awaits our appreciation.
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4. Structure and Purpose of 1 John | Bible.org - 0 views

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shared by Tim Limkeman on 08 Mar 18 - No Cached
  • the structure of 1 John
  • reflect on just how different this “letter” is, especially in comparison with contemporary examples of letters and with 2 and 3 John (both of which exhibit almost all the characteristics of first century a.d. letters).
  • Most of the sentences in Greek have a very simple syntactical structure and the lack of connective conjunctions is often striking.
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  • an extremely convoluted internal structure which has plagued interpreters for centuries.
  • Attempts to trace a consecutive argument throughout 1 John have never succeeded. For the convenience of a commentator and his readers, it is possible to present such an analysis of the epistle as is given on pp. 31 f., but this does not imply that the author himself worked to an organized plan.
  • At best we can distinguish three main courses of thought: the first (1.5-2.27), which has two main themes, ethical (walking in light) and Christological (confessing Jesus as the Christ); the second (2.28-4.6), which repeats the ethical and Christological themes with variations; the third (4.7-5.12) where the same two essential themes are presented as love and faith and shown to be inseparable and indispensable products of life in Christ.41
  • the two main themes of walking in light and confessing Jesus as the Christ are repeated throughout all the sections.
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Heraclitus | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - 1 views

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Logos Johannine Literature Heraclitus

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  • Thus the world is not to be identified with any particular substance, but rather with an ongoing process governed by a law of change.
  • Heraclitus is the first Western philosopher to go beyond physical theory in search of metaphysical foundations and moral applications.
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