Christian Soteriology and Christian Platonism

Origen, Gregory of Nyssa, and the Biblical and Philosophical Basis of the Doctrine of Apokatastasis

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4804052
AutoresIlaria Ramelli (0000-0003-1479-4182, 1Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Milan, Italy, autor correspondente)
Ano2007
Volume61
Fascículo3
Páginas313-356
Data de publicação2007-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoVigiliae Christianae (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0042-6032 • E-ISSN: 1570-0720
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/157007207x186051
OpenAlexW2095144487
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10

Paul's statement that God will be all in all and other NT and OT passages are taken by Origen and by Gregory of Nyssa as the scriptural basis of their eschatological doctrine of apokatastasis and eventual universal salvation. At the same time, their doctrine rests (1) on philosophical arguments mainly deriving from Platonism (Gregory's De anima et resurrectione is deeply influenced by Platonism both in form and in content, and so is Origen, although both are Christians first and Platonists second), and (2) on the allegorical exegesis of Scripture, another heritage of Hellenistic culture: Origen was very well acquainted with the Stoic and Platonic allegorical interpretations of Greek myths

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