TY  - BOOK
AU  - Edwards,M.J.
TI  - Origen against Plato
SN  - 0754613313
AV  - BR 65.O68 E38.2002
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Aldershot, Burlington, Vt.
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Orígen
KW  - Orígenes
KW  - Platonists
KW  - Platonismo
N1  - Incluye bibliografía (p. 163-175) e índice; 1. Origen among Christians, Jews and Gnostics. Christian and Jew -- The church in Alexandria -- Christian heterodoxy in Alexandria -- Christological considerations -- Concluding remarks on Origen -- 2. The God of Origen and the gods of Plato. Platonism and the Name of God -- Studying philosophy in Alexandria -- God, philosophy and revelation -- The divine creator -- Christ as logos -- The Trinity, Ousia and Hypostasis -- 3. The doctrine of the soul in Origen. Did Origen believe in the pre-existence of the soul? -- Interlude: the pre-existence of the soul of Christ -- The pre-existent soul : does On first principles contradict itself? -- A pilgrimage of souls -- Image, likeness and the fashioning of saints -- Eschatology and mysticism -- 4. The interpretation of Scripture. Notes toward a definition of allegory -- Allegory and the philosophers -- The Alexandrian tradition -- Origen and the Word of God -- The mystery of Christian maturation -- Mysticism, Platonism, Jewish literalism -- Word and sacrament -- Objections and replies
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