Origen and Hellenism: The Interplay Between Greek and Christian Ideas in Late Antiquity

ISBN-13: 9781433189173 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 785 str.

Panayiotis Tzamalikos

Opis

This book elucidates and engages in critical discussion of the Greek philosophical background to the work of Origen, the great third-century scholar and theologian.

Recenzje

"No-one acquainted with current scholarship on Origen will fail to recognise the author of this book, not only on account of its length and the vigour of its style, but because Tzamalikos has no rival in erudition or in the fecundity of his ideas. None of his critics (least of all those who accuse him of disparaging Greek philosophy) will be able to produce the range of quotations from two millennia of Greek literature that Tzamalikos can marshal in support of every one of his conclusions, and few of them will be able to match his conceptual subtlety or his tenacity in exegesis. Since he is the one indispensable author writing in English on Origen at the moment, this volume will be especially useful to scholars because, while it introduces a lot of new material, it also recapitulates the arguments of Tzamalikos' earlier studies, which, famous as they are, do not seem always to have been read in their entirety by his critics." -Mark Edwards, Professor of Early Christian Studies, University of Oxford

Spis treści

Preface - List of Abbreviations - Introduction - The Platonic Ideas as 'thoughts of God' - The Garments of Skin (Genesis, 3:21) - Adam as the Universal Human Nature - Aetherial Bodies in Neoplatonism and Christianity - Origen on Castration - Conclusion - Postscriptum: Origen and Anaxagoras - Appendix I: Origen's Commentary on Matthew, 15:1-5 - Appendix II: Cassian Who? On Attempts to Rescue a Figment - Bibliography - Index of Ancient Names - Index of Modern Names.

O autorze

Panayiotis Tzamalikos (MSc, MPhil, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; PhD, Faculty of Divinity, University of Glasgow) is Professor of Philosophy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His books include The Concept of Time in Origen; Origen: Cosmology and Ontology of Time; Origen: Philosophy of History and Eschatology; A Newly Discovered Greek Father-Cassian the Sabaite Eclipsed by 'John Cassian' of Marseilles; The Real Cassian Revisited-Monastic Life, Greek Paideia, and Origenism in the Sixth Century; An Ancient Commentary on the Book of Revelation; Anaxagoras, Origen, and Neoplatonism-The Legacy of Anaxagoras to Classical and Late Antiquity; and Origen: New Fragments from the Commentary on Matthew.