The Origenist Controversy: The Cultural Construction of an Early Christian Debate - Rilegato

Clark, Elizabeth A.

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ISBN 10: 0691031738 ISBN 13: 9780691031736

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1992

Riassunto

Around the turn of the fifth century, Christian theologians and churchmen contested each other's orthodoxy and good repute by hurling charges of "Origenism" at their opponents. And although orthodoxy was more narrowly defined by that era than during Origen's lifetime in the third century, his speculative, Platonizing theology was not the only issue at stake in the Origenist controversy: "Origen" became a code word for nontheological complaints as well. Elizabeth Clark explores the theological and extra-theological implications of the dispute, uses social network analysis to explain the personal alliances and enmities of its participants, and suggests how it prefigured modern concerns with the status of representation, the social construction of the body, and praxis vis--vis theory. Shaped by the Trinitarian and ascetic debates, and later to influence clashes between Augustine and the Pelagians, the Origenist controversy intersected with patristic campaigns against pagan "idolatry" and Manichean and astrological determinism. Discussing Evagrius Ponticus, Epiphanius, Theophilus, Jerome, Shenute, and Rufinus in turn, Clark concludes by showing how Augustine's theory of original sin reconstructed the Origenist theory of the soul's pre-existence and "fall" into the body.

Originally published in 1992.

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"This is a distinguished book by a first-class scholar who has mastered a huge mass of material and tells a story where both the religious ideas and the human interest are gripping stuff. The densely packed information is skillfully presented so that one never loses sight of the shape of the whole."--The Times Higher Education Supplement

Contenuti

	Acknowledgments
	List of Abbreviations
	Introduction	3
Ch. 1	Elite Networks and Heresy Accusations: Towards a Social Description of the Origenist Controversy	11
Ch. 2	Image and Images: Evagrius Ponticus and the Anthropomorphite Controversy	43
Ch. 3	The Charges against Origenism	85
	Epiphanus's Version of Origenism and His Anti-Origenism Charges	86
	Theophilus's Version of Origenism and His Anti-Origenist Charges	105
	Jerome's Version of Origenism and His Anti-Origenist Charges	121
	Shenute's Version of Origenism and His Anti-Origenist Charges	151
Ch. 4	Rufinus's Defense against Charges of Origenism	159
Ch. 5	From Origenism to Pelagianism	194
	The Issues	194
	"Pre-Pelagian" Concerns	198
	The Pelagians	207
	Jerome	221
	Augustine	227
	Theodicy	244
	Conclusion	245
	Afterword	248
	Bibliography	251
	Index	281

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0691031738
• ISBN 13: 9780691031736
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 308
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