Christian Soteriology and Christian Platonism

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

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4804052
AutoresIlaria Ramelli (0000-0003-1479-4182, 1Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Milan, Italy, autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen61
Número3
Páginas313-356
Fecha de publicación2007-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaVigiliae Christianae (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0042-6032 • E-ISSN: 1570-0720
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/157007207x186051
OpenAlexW2095144487
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10

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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