Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-460) and indexes.
Contents
Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Homonyms; The Origenistic controversy in scholarship; Latin translations; Origen and Platonism; Tentative Theological Conjectures; On the method of Biblical interpretation; Final notes; PART I TIME AND HISTORY; Chapter One HUMAN BEING THROUGHOUT AN AEON; Chapter Two HISTORY AND THE INCARNATION OF CHRIST; Chapter Three PROPHECY AND HISTORY; Chapter Four THE CONCEPT OF KAIROS; PART II THE NOTION OF ETERNAL; Chapter Five ETERNAL LIFE; Chapter Six ETERNAL LIFE AND THE NOTION OF INFINITE; Chapter Seven ETERNAL LIFE AND FREEDOM; Chapter Eight ETERNAL DEATH.
Summary
Against claims that Origen causes History to evaporate into barren idealism, this work shows that his theology have no other source and aim than historical occurrences. It sheds light upon the Aristotelian character of Origen's doctrine of apokatastasis.
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