Henri Crouzel
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
352
1990
This volume is concerned with the eschatology of Origen the great 3rd century theologian and philosopher of Alexandria. Of all the doctrines attributed to him those on the resurrection of man and the end of days have evoked the most opposition and controversy from Antiquity to the Patristic scholarship of today. Professor Crouzel argues that the thought of Origen himself has been consistently misunderstood and distorted from the time of Methodius of Olympia onwards and that renewed examination of Origen's own surviving writings can lead to a radically differing assessment of the orthodoxy of his views. Among the particular points discussed are Origen's doctrine of Purgatory commonly supposed to be a particularity of the Latin Church and the relationship in his thought between the final purification at the end of time and the spiritual purification of existence here on earth.
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
352
1990
This volume is concerned with the eschatology of Origen the great 3rd century theologian and philosopher of Alexandria. Of all the doctrines attributed to him those on the resurrection of man and the end of days have evoked the most opposition and controversy from Antiquity to the Patristic scholarship of today. Professor Crouzel argues that the thought of Origen himself has been consistently misunderstood and distorted from the time of Methodius of Olympia onwards and that renewed examination of Origen's own surviving writings can lead to a radically differing assessment of the orthodoxy of his views. Among the particular points discussed are Origen's doctrine of Purgatory commonly supposed to be a particularity of the Latin Church and the relationship in his thought between the final purification at the end of time and the spiritual purification of existence here on earth.