Progress in Origen and the Origenian Tradition / / Anders-Christian Jacobsen, Gaetano Lettieri, Maria Fallica (editors).

• Superior document: Early Christianity in the context of antiquity
• TeilnehmendeR: Jacobsen, Anders-Christian,; Lettieri, Gaetano,; Fallica, Maria,
• Place / Publishing House: Bern : : Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Early Christianity in the context of antiquity.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 pages).

Progress is a structural and systematic concept in the thought of Origen of Alexandria, which represents one of the most advanced syntheses of the Christian reading of the Old and the New Testaments' legacy and the classical paideia, as well as a rational critique towards every kind of static objectification of the religious. Origen's legacy was capable of radiating its influence through Western theology and philosophy, thus shaping its idea of theological, moral, intellectual, social and political progress. The volume follows the intellectual dynamism generated by the reception of Origen's thought through seventeen articles, which span through the centuries, from the analysis of Origen's thought to its reception history in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Modern Age, up until the 20th century.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Progress: A Key Idea for Origen and Its Inheritance -- Transgression, Regress, and Progress in the Theology of Origen of Alexandria -- Gnosticismo e mistica: una relazione complessa. Sull'anima gnostica e la genesi dell'antropologia cristiana -- The Tradition of Spiritual Progress in the West: The Legacy of Plotinus and Origen for Contemporary Neuroscience -- The First Principles of Origen's Logic: An Introduction to Origen's Theology of Logic -- The Use of Eros in Gregory of Nyssa's Homilies on the Song of Songs -- From reading to understanding: Profectus in Abelard and Origen -- Reason, Free Will, and Predestination. Origen in Aquinas' Theological Thought -- Blurred Lines: Origen the Kabbalist -- Charity and Progress: Erasmus in the Origenian Tradition -- The Idea of Progression between Humanism and Reformation: The Case of Sebastian Castellio -- Wait for Better Times: Eschatological Expectations in Philipp Jacob Spener, Johann Wilhelm Petersen and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- Hamann and the Parody of Progress -- Origene e la tradizione alessandrina in Antonio Rosmini -- Two Types of Christian Apokatastasis: Origen and Karl Barth -- Origen as Hegel: The Notion of Aufhebung in Balthasar's Interpretation of Origen -- Myth and Progress: Hans Blumenberg's Reading of Origen of Alexandria -- Bibliography -- General Index.