The concept of the Divine Logos, translated loosely as The Divine Word, is originally credited to Heraclitus, circa about 535 - 475 BC.
The Divine Word may be interpreted to mean several things:
- Logos (Christianity); according to the Gospel of John, Jesus is the Word of God.
- The Divine Word may refer to the Word of God, which in a Christian context usually refers to the Bible.
- Other faiths may use the Divine Word to refer to their own sacred texts.
- The Society of the Divine Word is a Roman Catholic missionary order founded in 1875 in Germany. It originally sought Roman Catholic converts in East Asia.
- Divine Word College is a Roman Catholic seminary in Epworth, Iowa that trains students for missionary work, affiliated with the Society of the Divine Word.
- Divine Word School of English is a Roman Catholic school that teaches English as a foreign language; it is located in Maynooth, Ireland, and is also affiliated with the Society of the Divine Word.
- Divine Word Secondary School (AKA Sing Yin Secondary School) is a boys' school located in Lam Tin, Hong Kong.
Famous quotes containing the words divine and/or word:
“He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote ... takes on the character of divine revelation.”
—Margaret Halsey (b. 1910)
“I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.”
—Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)