Demiurge

See also: demiurge and démiurge

English

Alternative forms

• Demiurgos (Grecian)
• Demiurgus (Latinate)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Δημιουργός (Dēmiourgós), see demiurge.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛmɪɜːdʒ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛmɪˌɝd͡ʒ/

Proper noun

Demiurge

1. (Platonism) The subordinate being that fashions the perceptible world in the light of eternal ideas.
2. (Gnosticism) A prideful, inferior being that creates the material world; frequently identified with the creator God of the Hebrew Bible.
   • 2001, Hans Jonas, The Gnostic Religion: The message of the alien God, page 191:

     For the rest, we meet in the Demiurge of the Valentinians all the traits of the world-god with which we have by now become familiar and can therefore deal here very briefly

Translations

subordinate deity

• Catalan: demiürg (ca) m
• Finnish: demiurgi (fi)
• Greek: δημιουργός (el) m (dimiourgós)
• Norwegian: demiurg m
• Russian: Демиу́рг (ru) m (Demiúrg)

Inferior creator deity in Gnosticism

• Catalan: demiürg (ca) m
• Esperanto: Demiurgo
• Finnish: demiurgi (fi)
• French: démiurge (fr) m
• German: Demiurg (de) m
• Greek: δημιουργός (el) m (dimiourgós)
• Hebrew: בורא עולם
• Italian: demiurgo (it) m
• Japanese: デミウルゴス (demiurugosu)
• Norwegian: demiurg m
• Portuguese: demiurgo (pt) m
• Russian: Демиу́рг (ru) m (Demiúrg)
• Slovene: demiúrg m
• Spanish: demiurgo m