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Origen against Plato / Mark Julian Edwards.
LIBRA BR65.O68 E38 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edwards, M. J. (Mark J.)
- Series:
- Ashgate studies in philosophy & theology in late antiquity
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Origen.
- Platonists.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 191 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2002]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Origen among Christians, Jews and Gnostics 11
- Christian and Jew 11
- The Church in Alexandria 18
- Christian Heterodoxy in Alexandria 26
- Christological Considerations 33
- Concluding Remarks on Origen 36
- Chapter 2 The God of Origen and the Gods of Plato 47
- Platonism and the Name of God 47
- Studying Philosophy in Alexandria 53
- God, Philosophy and Revelation 55
- The Divine Creator 61
- Christ as Logos 65
- The Trinity, Ousia and Hypostasis 74
- Chapter 3 The Doctrine of the Soul in Origen 87
- Did Origen Believe in the Pre-existence of the Soul? 89
- Interlude: the Pre-existence of the Soul of Christ 93
- The Pre-existent Soul: does On First Principles Contradict Itself? 94
- A Pilgrimage of Souls 97
- Image, Likeness and the Fashioning of Saints 102
- Eschatology and Mysticism 111
- Chapter 4 The Interpretation of Scripture 123
- Notes Toward a Definition of Allegory 123
- Allegory and the Philosophers 126
- The Alexandrian Tradition 130
- Origen and the Word of God 133
- The Mystery of Christian Maturation 138
- Mysticism, Platonism, Jewish Literalism 144
- Word and Sacrament 147
- Objections and Replies 149.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-175) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754613313
- 075460828X
- OCLC:
- 48796293
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