In case you were curious what the fuss was all about, here's a short explanation of Christianity.
From the Greek Platonic tradition [1], there was a belief in an ineffable Oneness that is the origin and nature of all things. Allegorically, this was treated as a person, like Zeus, but recognized to be fundamentally transcendental and ineffable pure — the One.
The Logos was the emanation from the One; it was the son of god, so to speak, that crafted all material reality. Logos is typically translated as "word", like "in the beginning was the word", but that minimizes the concept of logos. Importantly, Jesus was understood to be the incarnation of the Logos in human form; "the word made flesh.". [2]
That was the dominant philosophical idea in Christian theology until the year 400, when Pope Theophilus of Alexandria had to deal with rioting monks who demanded an anthropomorphic God. He ended up killing the 10,000 monks who believed in an incorporeal God. [3]
So, enjoy your christmas: the celebration of the day when the logos became incarnate!
From the Greek Platonic tradition [1], there was a belief in an ineffable Oneness that is the origin and nature of all things. Allegorically, this was treated as a person, like Zeus, but recognized to be fundamentally transcendental and ineffable pure — the One.
The Logos was the emanation from the One; it was the son of god, so to speak, that crafted all material reality. Logos is typically translated as "word", like "in the beginning was the word", but that minimizes the concept of logos. Importantly, Jesus was understood to be the incarnation of the Logos in human form; "the word made flesh.". [2]
That was the dominant philosophical idea in Christian theology until the year 400, when Pope Theophilus of Alexandria had to deal with rioting monks who demanded an anthropomorphic God. He ended up killing the 10,000 monks who believed in an incorporeal God. [3]
So, enjoy your christmas: the celebration of the day when the logos became incarnate!
[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/4182081#metadata_info_tab_conte...
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logos_(Christianity)
[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Theophilus_of_Alexandri...