THE WORLDVIEW IN ORIGEN’S THINKING
THE WORLDVIEW IN ORIGEN’S THINKING

Summary/Abstract: Origen, the great Alexandrian church writer, was and continues to be a great theological personality whose work, impressive from the viewpoint of its volume, was a landmark and also a challenge for the Christian theology of later centuries. Its cosmology, largely Christian, but influenced by elements of Platonic, Neoplatonic, and Stoic philosophy, constitutes the first major attempt to explain the origin and meaning of the world according to Holy Scripture. Failed between idealism and allegory, however, his attempt has many positive parts that have been capitalised by Christian theology, especially through the Holy Fathers of the fourth century, such as St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory of Nyssa and St. Gregory. Nazianzus.

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