{"id":35775,"date":"2021-12-24T15:25:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T14:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=35775"},"modified":"2022-05-31T16:36:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T14:36:22","slug":"in-the-beginning-there-was-a-harmonious-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/in-the-beginning-there-was-a-harmonious-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Beginning, There Was &#8230; A Harmonious Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"A reflection on the Johannine logos\n\n\n\nThe beginning of the prologue of the Gospel of John, translated from Greek, is well known: \u00abIn the beginning there was the Word, and the Word was with God\u00bb (John 1:1). In the following reflection, I do not want to criticize this common transmission, but to supplement and deepen it with an interpretation of the Greek term \u2039l\u00f3gos\u203a, which points to a dimension of this inexhaustible source of spirituality, as far as I know, hitherto unnoticed.\n\nThe Greek term \u2039l\u00f3gos\u203a not only refers to the creative \u2039word\u203a born of the divine intelligence (also l\u00f3gos). The same term also points to the harmonious relationship that exists between the Father and the Son\/Word at the beginning of all that is, and through which all forms of being arise (John 1, 3<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to carry on reading? <a href=\"\/en\/subscribe\/\">Get to know us for 1.-<\/a>. If you are already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log-in<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reflection on the Johannine logos The beginning of the prologue of the Gospel of John, translated from Greek, is well known: \u00abIn the beginning there was the Word, and the Word was with God\u00bb (John 1:1). In the following reflection, I do not want to criticize this common transmission, but to supplement and deepen it with an interpretation of the Greek term \u2039l\u00f3gos\u203a, which points to a dimension of this inexhaustible source of spirituality, as far as I know, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9304,"featured_media":34674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8786,9110],"tags":[9111,8814],"class_list":["post-35775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christology","category-literary-arts","tag-2021-52-53-en","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}