hamartia

How To Use hamartia In A Sentence

• The terms hamartia and hubris should become basic tools of your critical apparatus.
• In essence, hamartia means “mistake,” pure and simple—although the mistake is never pure and rarely simple. Amaryllis in Blueberry
• Your hamartia is your: a. tragic flaw that leads to your downfall. Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
• Aristotle's idea that a tragic hero acts from a hamartia or mistake rather than evil intent was distorted into a theory of the so-called tragic flaw and was applied to describe foibles of Hamlet and Othello (jealousy).
• The terms hamartia and hubris should become basic tools of your critical apparatus.
• But for the use of arche in the sense and with the force which we here demand for it, as "principium," not "initium" (though these Latin words do not adequately reproduce the distinction), compare the Gospel of Nicodemus, c. 25, in which Hades addresses Satan as he tou thanatou arche kai rhiza tes hamartias; and further, Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 15): ho Theos estin panton aitia kai arche; and again, Clement of Alexandria (Strom.iv. 25): ho Theos de anarchos, arche ton holon panteles. Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia.
• “He made his soul an offering for sin,” — a piacular sacrifice for the removing of it away; which the apostle abundantly cleareth, in saying that he was made hamartia, “sin” itself, 2 Cor.v. 21, sin being there put for the adjunct of it, or the punishment due unto it. The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
• Yet in every Greek tragedy the catalyst for the protagonist’s downfall is hamartia, from the Greek hamartanein, a term that describes an archer missing the target. Amaryllis in Blueberry
• It was for Alexander a tragic flaw, or hamartia, a Greek word meaning to miss the mark when shooting an arrow Christians would later use the same word to mean “sin”. Alexander the Great
• But there is another more proper signification of the word: hamartia being put for hamartōlos, — “sin,” for a “sinner,” (that is, passively, not actively; not by inhesion, but imputation); for this the phrase of speech and force of the antithesis seem to require. The Doctrine of Justification by Faith