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Logos or divine word from the perspective of Origen of Alexandria and Feyż Kāšānī

Document Type : Original Research Paper

Authors

Natstaran Fahimi 1
Alireza Ebrahim 2

1 PhD student in Religious and Mystic Studies at the Azad Islamic University of North Tehran, Iran,

2 Assistant Professor at the Azad Islamic University of North Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22034/spektrum.2021.184658
Abstract
The concepts of „Logos” or „Word of God” are central to Christian and
Islamic theology and their interpretations also affect other theological
elements. This descriptive-comparative study attempts to reconcile the
views of Origins of Alexandria and Feyż Kāšānī
in this regard. They sought to equip theology with rationality on
philosophical (Neo-Platonic or Aristotelian) grounds and believed in a
system of divine manifestations based on mystical (gnostīc or sūfī) contexts.
They regarded the Logos or the Word as one of the names of the deity
which was issued by God on the basis of „grace” or „feyż/luṭf” and was
manifested as the truth of Jesus or the muḥammadīyyah truth. This fact, at a
later stage, has led to a very low level of creation and has been manifested
in the realms of being worlds and humanity. Also the Logos, or Divine
Word, protects the universe and directs the creatures to return to God. The
similarity of the interpretations of Origen and Feyż in particular shows: the
Shī ̒a mystical understanding of the position of Jesus Christ, based on the
speech of the ma ̒ṣūmīn (pbuth), matches with a type of „Christology” in the
pre-councils history of Christianity.


Keywords

Word
Logos
Human
Origins of Alexandria
Feyż Kā&scaron
ānī

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Spektrum Iran
Volume 34, Issue 1
June 2021
Pages 35-56

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