Origenist

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Or´i`gen`ist

A follower of Origen of Alexandria.

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While Guillaumont offered an invaluable edition of Evagrius's Kephalaia Gnostika (which, apart from some new readings from the manuscript and some emendations, I kept as a basis for my own commentary), (7) his view that Evagrius was a radical, "isochristic" Origenist whose ideas were the real target of the Second Council of Constantinople needs reconsideration.

Reply to professor Michael McClymond

Ratzinger distances himself from Balthasar's sympathies with the Origenist misericordia tradition, while at the same time reflecting deeply on the implications for an objectively redeemed humanity of Christ's descent into Sheol, the utter darkness of human loneliness and angst proper to sin and death.

Damnation and the Trinity in Ratzinger and Balthasar

In this, he was different from more Origenist allegorical interpreters and showed himself both practical yet traditional.

Maximos the Confessor, On Difficulties in the Church Fathers: The Ambigua, Volume I

For the Origenist controversy, he focuses on Pamphilus' Apology for Origen.

Catholicity and Heresy in the Early Church

Merton next turns to a brief account of the Origenist controversy, which precipitated Cassian's departure from Egypt.

Book

Indeed, the focus of the collection is largely on heresy, whether that of Locke, Newton, and anti-Trinitarians (here the inclusion of essays by three members of the Newton Project may have been a factor), the Cambridge Platonist and theological Origenist Henry More, or populist radicals like the millenarian Thomas Beverly.

Scripture and Scholarship in Early Modern England

Clark, The Origenist Controversy: The Cultural Construction of an Early Christian Debate (Princeton 1992), also M.

Later heresies

In the first centuries in the East a "refutation of Origenism" took place through the monastic tradition, so that the later Eastern Christian tradition preserved the Origenist heritage selectively.

Creation and ecology: how does the Orthodox church respond to ecological problems?

While there is no certainty that all will ultimately be saved, and the church has rejected this Origenist idea as incompatible with divine revelation, there is absolute certainty that it is God's will that "all be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth".

THE ORTHODOX CHURCH AND ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN MISSION FROM AN ALASKAN PERSPECTIVE

A careful critical study of the Origenist debates during the late fourth and early fifth centuries.

ORIGEN

It was perhaps not until Maritain, though, that this proposal was clearly distinguished from the Origenist apokatastasis, as the final state of the damned is not salvation, but a lesser form of being without supernatural grace (alone proportionate to the order of glory).

Presuppositions of Balthasar's Universalist Hope and Maritain's Alternative Eschatological Proposal

In thus blurring the distinction between exterior and interior senses, Claudel is closer to a Bonaventurian than to an Origenist approach to spiritual senses: according to Mariette Canevet, Bonaventure understands the Incarnation to establish the possibility that faith in Christ can restore the fallen capacity of the senses to perceive truly and accurately both spiritual and corporeal objects.