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29 lines
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% kosmos.tex
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\ifdefiningfootnotes
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\DeclareFixedFootnote{\fnKosmos}{
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KOSMOS: the totality of existence.
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Meanwhile, ``world'' has come to mean merely earthly human concerns. See the Glossary.
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}
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\else
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\begin{glossarytext}
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\section{Cosmos}
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KOSMOS "Cosmos". Before N.T. times, KOSMOS means 'order', 'adornment' — our word 'cosmetic' derives
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from it — and that sense of orderliness persists as late as the Septuagint (the 3rd century BCE
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translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek). By
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N.T. times the word had broadened to mean the ordered whole of reality: 'the world', the 'cosmos'
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as we now understand it. Even so, the root sense of orderliness is never fully absent.
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\fnPar
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Usage varies by author. In Paul and the Synoptics, KOSMOS is largely neutral: the inhabited earth,
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humanity at large, the created order (e.g. Romans 1:20, where the KOSMOS itself displays God's
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attributes). In John's Gospel and letters, however, KOSMOS takes on a sharper, adversarial edge:
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the ordered system of human affairs considered in its estrangement from God, arrayed against the
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LOGOS that in fact orders it (John 1:10, 15:18-19; 1 John 2:15-17). This Johannine usage draws on
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a wider Hellenistic (particularly Stoic) idea of the LOGOS as the rational principle ordering the
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cosmos — an idea John baptizes and personalizes in his prologue, but which is not the general sense
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of KOSMOS across the N.T. as a whole.
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%TODO
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\end{glossarytext}
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\fi
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