#logos

• Analogos — An erudite philosophical and linguistic term, borrowed directly from Ancient Greek, designating an element, principle, or concept that stands in a relationship of analogy, mathematical proportion, or perfect structural symmetry with another entity. It is used in hermeneutic essays or classical logic studies to emphasize the identity of functional relationships between two different systems, acting as an explanatory core within comparative argumentation.
• Apophasisticos — Utilizing or pertaining to the method of expression through negation or exclusion; characteristic of theological discourse or metaphysical speculation that approaches the absolute by highlighting what it is not, rather than through positive definitions. This scholarly concept describes the nature of symbolic language that systematically rejects rigid conceptual determinations to preserve the transcendence of the studied reality.
• Apollinarianism — A 4th-century christological heresy, initiated by Apollinaris of Laodicea, which asserted that Jesus Christ possessed a human body and a lower soul, but that the human rational mind (nous) was completely replaced by the divine Logos. This doctrine diminished the full humanity of the Savior and was officially condemned at the Second Ecumenical Council of Constantinople (381) to preserve the dogma of the two full natures.