Body, sin, and society in Origen of Alexandria

Stefan Nordgaard

Body, sin, and society in Origen of Alexandria

Bidragets oversatte titel: Krop, synd og samfund hos Origenes af Alexandria

Stefan Nordgaard

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Abstract

This essay explores Origen's perception of God's purposes with the human body and asks how this perception influenced his views about how Christians should interact with the non-Christian world. It argues that, according to Origen, God had provided those spirits who dropped to the level of humanity after the fall with bodies of flesh and blood not only in order to help them towards spiritual improvement and salvation, but also in order to make sure that these spirits would remain wicked for as long as it would take for them to truly come to appreciate the horrors of sin-and thereby to never wish to return to it after their salvation. Furthermore it suggests that this understanding of the soteriological function of sin induced Origen to argue that Christians should interact as little as possible with the non-Christian world and allow that world to remain evil.

Bidragets oversatte titel	Krop, synd og samfund hos Origenes af Alexandria
Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Studia Theologica
Vol/bind	66
Udgave nummer	1
Sider (fra-til)	20-40
Antal sider	21
ISSN	0039-338X
Status	Udgivet - 1 jun. 2012

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