Attacking the Logos

Has ASU ever defended the Logos?

Another talk about the ills of “logocentrism.” I’ve never seen ASU hold a talk about the Logos except in this context. This talk is very explicit: the problem is the Logos understood as reason. Think about the self-contradiction in the speaker who will use reason to formulate arguments about how we should reject reason. That is what is allowed to pass at ASU.

I would be perfectly willing to admit that when “reason” is misused, it can become a source of problems. For instance, atheists like Steven Pinker speak highly of reason, but what he means is limited to practical rationality. Humans use practical rationality to solve daily problems presented to us. But Pinker has yet to use reason to know God.

Nevertheless, it would be hard to imagine that this speaker is unaware that the Logos is central to the Gospel of John. To demand that the Logos be “de-centered” is to ask for something else to be put in that place. What else can be put in the place of the one by whom all things were created? The one who makes God known? I’ll save the answer for another day, but I don’t think you’ll be surprised. It is the “same old same old.”