The Prologue of the Fourth Gospel: A Sequential Reading – By Peter M. Phillips

Digital Theology and a Potential Theological Approach to a Metaphysics of Information

“…One of the central tenets of my version of digital theology is that if we are scientists, technologists, we are so because we bear the image of a creator God who in the Trinity brooded over creation, fashioned it with love, informed it into being. John begins his account of the incarnated Word not in Bethlehem but at the beginning of things—an anarthrous beginning matching the Hebrew of Genesis 1.1 (Phillips 2006). The Logos is talked of as if the Logos were both qualitatively God (the famous NEB paraphrase: “what God was the Word was”), but in some sense separate from God—“with God,” “toward God,” “at God”.…”

“…In John 1, the Logos is presented as the Word which speaks to God (και ὀ λογος ἧν προς τον θεον), or is in conversation with God as Erasmus translated it—“Ιn the beginning was the Word and the Word was addressing the Divine, in conversation with the Divine, in relationship within the Divine” (Phillips 2006). In fact, such a concept of God's word as a reflexive place of meaning, an interface, opens up the possibility of the Bible, the written form of the Logos of God (?…”