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Origen’s Philosophical Theology, Allegoresis, and Connections to Platonism

  • Ilaria L. E. Ramelli
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Origen, the Philosophical Theologian
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents VII
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Origen, Patristic Philosophy, and Christian Platonism. Re-Thinking the Christianization of Hellenism 13
  5. Origen the Christian Middle / Neoplatonist: New Arguments for a Possible Identification 55
  6. Origen and the Platonic Tradition 91
  7. Some Aspects of the Reception of the Platonic Tradition in Origen 123
  8. The Study of Late Ancient Philosophy: Philosophy and Religion—“Pagan” and Christian Platonism 147
  9. Origen’s Philosophical Theology, Allegoresis, and Connections to Platonism 155
  10. The Question of Origen’s Conversion, His Concept and Lexicon of Conversion, and Their Relevance to His Biblical Exegesis 177
  11. Atticus and Origen on the Soul of God the Creator: From the ‘Pagan’ to the Christian Side of Middle Platonism 219
  12. Alexander of Aphrodisias: A Source of Origen’s Philosophy? 237
  13. Origen’s Anti-Subordinationism and its Heritage in the Nicene and Cappadocian Line 285
  14. Origen, Greek Philosophy, and the Birth of the Trinitarian Meaning of Hypostasis 311
  15. The Father in the Son, the Son in the Father in the Gospel of John: Sources and Reception of Dynamic Unity in Middle and Neoplatonism, ‘Pagan’ and Christian 365
  16. Porphyry’s Criticism of the Logos of Origen, the Possible Role of a Sethian Treatise, and Amelius 397
  17. Origen in Augustine: A Paradoxical Reception 427
  18. The Sources of Augustine on Christ’s Death and Resurrection as Exemplum and Sacramentum: Origen and Ambrose? 451
  19. The Divine as Inaccessible Object of Knowledge in Ancient Platonism: A Common Philosophical Pattern across Religious Traditions 495
  20. The Reception of Origen’s Ideas in Western Theological and Philosophical Traditions 517
  21. Divine Power in Origen of Alexandria. Sources and Aftermath 541
  22. The Logos/Nous One-Many between ‘Pagan’ and Christian Platonism 567
  23. The Reception of Paul’s Nous in the Christian Platonism of Origen and Evagrius 603
  24. Origen to Evagrius 643
  25. Matter in the Dialogue of Adamantius: Origen’s Heritage and Hylomorphism 665
  26. Origen, Evagrius, and Dionysius 707
  27. About the author 723
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