Logos
means both reason and word - a reason which is creative and capable of
self-communication, precisely as reason. John thus spoke the final word on
the biblical concept of God, and in this word all the often toilsome and
tortuous threads of biblical faith find their culmination and synthesis.
In the beginning was the logos, and the logos is God, says
the Evangelist.
This
is how Benedict transcends all the "toilsome and tortuous threads" in order
to subdue history to his decisions and appetites, even ignoring that beyond
all the other numerous meanings (not just reason and word - what is,
for example, the meaning of Logos in
Heraklitus?, and does not the very translation of logos as 'reason' or
'word' imply different meanings each time?), beyond all these, the
main and primary meaning of Logos is the Holy Wisdom (Haghia Sophia),
that is, not the concepts of any intellect, inherent or expressed, but the
whole of the divine nature ina person as such, the
person of Christ. Logos is the person of Christ Himself, also being revealed
as a Person in the Presence of all the Saints to the degree they are united
with Christ. To identify Logos with either reason or speech or both of them,
is just atheism.
The encounter between the
Biblical message and Greek thought did not happen by chance. The vision of
Saint Paul, who saw the roads to Asia barred and in a dream saw a
Macedonian man plead with him: "Come over to Macedonia and help us!" (cf.
Acts 16:6-10) - this vision can be interpreted as a "distillation"
of the intrinsic necessity of a rapprochement between Biblical faith and
Greek inquiry.
Why rapprochement? Has there
been an enmity? The question is answered already with the papal distinction
between a Biblical Christian and a Greek Christian: Sola Scriptura has
become the shed of light and everything and anyone else is more or less
alien until further examination by the papal arbitrariness, the only able to
handle the light of Scriptures.
