Christian Soteriology and Christian Platonism – Origen, Gregory of Nyssa, and the Biblical and Philosophical Basis of the Doctrine of Apokatastasis – Cover Image

Хришћанска сотириологија и хришћански платонизам – Ориген, Григорије Ниски, и библијска и философска основа учења о апокатастази –
Christian Soteriology and Christian Platonism – Origen, Gregory of Nyssa, and the Biblical and Philosophical Basis of the Doctrine of Apokatastasis –

Author(s): Ilaria L.E. Ramelli
Contributor(s): Stefan Milanović (Translator)
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Philosophy, Biblical studies, Systematic Theology
Published by: Свети Архијерејски Синод
Keywords: allegory; relationship between philosophy and Christianity; doctrine of evil; purification of the soul; resurrection; eschatology

Summary/Abstract: 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.

  • Issue Year: XLVI/2013
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 977-1028
  • Page Count: 52
  • Language: Serbian