lameness

Andrew Mason · 18 Jan 2011, 13:36 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com (Andrew Mason)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:36:26 +0000
Subject: (urth) lameness
Message-ID: <AANLkTinzfh_bUS6m8jiM=mRzbvaFB82EY9DYMO4apOVW at mail.gmail.com>

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
>
> Just a fussy point: There is no Demiurge in Christianity. That's a
> Gnostic (and neoPlatonist) concept.
>

In origin, it's a Platonist concept, introduced by the man himself.
Gnostics and neo-Platonists transformed it in different ways. In
Gnosticism the demiurge is a negative figure, which is a major reason
why Christians tend not to like the term - but in neo-Platonism he is
positive (more or less).

It can also be taken to imply one who creates out of pre-existing
material, while the Christian God is normally taken to create out of
nothing.

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