Origen and Hellenism : The Interplay Between Greek and Christian Ideas in Late Antiquity.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tzamalikos, Panayiotis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Origen.

Hellenism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (598 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang Publishing, Incorporated, 2022.

Summary:

This book elucidates and engages in critical discussion of the Greek philosophical background to the work of Origen, the great third-century scholar and theologian.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1 The Platonic Ideas as 'thoughts of God'

2 The Garments of Skin (Genesis, 3:21)

Killing the Figurative Language

Gregory of Nazianzus and Platonism

The Garments of Skin

Man is a Small Universe

Philosophy versus Mythology

A Henad of Rational Creatures?

Origen's Sway on Posterity

3 Adam as the Universal Human Nature

4 Aetherial Bodies in Neoplatonism and Christianity

From Classical to Late Antiquity

Christians and Aetherial Bodies

Conclusion

5 Origen on Castration

Postscriptum: Origen and Anaxagoras

Appendix I: Origen's Commentary on Matthew, 15:1-5

Appendix II: Cassian Who?

Bibliography

Index of Ancient Names

Index of Modern Names.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4331-8919-4

1-4331-8918-6

OCLC:

1313881544