What is "theologoumenon"

Usage examples of "theologoumenon".

Justin showed in the Dialogue that, independently of the theologoumenon of the Logos, he was firmly convinced of the divinity of Christ on the ground of predictions and of the impression made by his personality.

But we ought not to charge the Apologists with the theologoumenon that it was an inward necessity for the Logos to become man.

This theologoumenon owes its origin to a combination of two older ones, and subsequently received its Biblical basis from the Song of Solomon.

In the 2nd Epistle of Clement the latter theologoumenon is already applied in a modified form.

Here the reference of a theologoumenon to a passage of Scripture was of itself sufficient, and the manifold and incongruous doctrines were felt as a unity in so far as they could all be verified from Holy Scriptures.

Moreover, in his pneumatico-cosmic Christology he gave the Greeks an impulse towards a theologoumenon, at whose service they could place their whole philosophy and mysticism.

If, as is probable, the Ignatian Epistles are independent of the Gospel of John, further, the Supper prayer in the Didache, finally, certain mystic theological phrases in the Epistle of Barnabas, in the second epistle of Clement, and in Hermas, a complex of Theologoumena may be put together, which reaches back to the primitive period of the Church, and may be conceived as the general ground for the theology of John.