Guilty of Genius; Origen and the Theory of Transmigration

ISBN-13: 9781433185694 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 600 str.

Panayiotis Tzamalikos

Opis

This is an important new contribution to our understanding of Origen and of early Christian theology in general.

Spis treści

Preface - Abbreviations - Introduction - What is a 'soul'? - The Concept of 'incorporeal': Revisiting a Disregarded Obviousness - Human Identity as an Individual Quality ( d pi ) - The Prime Body, the Notion of Infinite, and the 'encompassing' ( pi ni) - Antecedent Causes and Universal Sympathy - Transmigration and Embodiment - Soul as 'priest' of the Mind - 'Nous from without' Pre- Existing? - Conclusion - Bibliography - Index of Ancient Names - Index of Modern Names.

O autorze

Panayiotis Tzamalikos (MSc, MPhil, Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; PhD, Faculty of Divinity, University of Glasgow) is Professor of Philosophy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His books include Origen: Cosmology and Ontology of Time; Origen: Philosophy of History and Eschatology; Anaxagoras, Origen, and Neoplatonism: The Legacy of Anaxagoras to Classical and Late Antiquity; Origen: New Fragments from the Commentary on Matthew; and Origen and Hellenism-The Interplay between Greek and Christian Ideas in Late Antiquity.