PERSPECTIVES ON ORIGEN AND THE HISTORY OF HIS RECEPTION

Perspectives on Origen and the History of his 'Reception

The present volume contains papers on Origen and the history of his reception which were presented at a series of workshops at the Eighteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held at Oxford in August 2019. They provide multifarious insights into various aspects of Origen’s thought and his impact on different topics of theology, exegesis and philosophy from Late Antiquity to Early Modern Times. By connecting the Alexandrian’s legacy with recent developments in Patristics and Classics, they open up new perspectives for Origen scholarship in the new millenium. Research on Origen can be connected with studies, e.g., on rhetoric and power, on individuality and diversity, on gender and equality issues, on determinism and freedom and on questions of cultural transfer and transformation. The contributions to this volume can thus be taken as starting points for future studies on Origen within the broader context of contemporary research in science and the humanities.

Alfons Fürst
Perspectives on Origen – Quondam and Tomorrow.
Stimuli for the Future of Origen Studies in the New Millenium . . . . . . 13

ROLE MODELS FOR HUMAN FREEDOM AND DIGNITY
IN ORIGEN

Anders-Christian Jacobsen
Body and Freedom in Origen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Karla Pollmann
Role Models and Soft Power in Origen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Monnica Klöckener
The Samaritan Woman in Origen’s Commentary on John Seen from
a Modern Perspective of Human Dignity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Sara Contini
Judging the Judges: Exaltation and Humiliation in Origen’s
Homilies on Judges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

PERSPECTIVES ON ORIGEN IN LATE ANTIQUITY
Alfons Fürst
Readings of Origen in Late Antiquity: Origen as Presented by
Pamphilus, Athanasius and the Philocalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Pui Him Ip
Origen against Origen? The Paradoxical Legacy of Origen in
Athanasius’ Exegesis of Prov. 8:22 in Contra Arianos II . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Mark J. Edwards
Origen, Didymus and Theodore on the Literal Sense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Stephen C. Carlson
Rufinus’ Origenization of Eusebius in his Translation of the
Historia ecclesiastica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Benjamin A. Edsall
A Liturgical Update in Rufinus’ Translation of Origen’s
Commentary on Romans? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Giovanni Hermanin de Reichenfeld
God is the Spirit or the Spirit is God? Origen’s and Augustine’s
Interpretations of John 4:24 and their Understanding of God’s Essence 173

Morten Kock Møller
Secundum propositum hominis: Augustine’s Refutation of a Popular
Interpretation of Rom. 8:28. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Ilaria Scarponi
In Defence of Freedom of Choice: The Liber de induratione cordis
Pharaonis as a Case of Reception of Origen’s Biblical Exegesis . . . . . . . 215

PERSPECTIVES ON ORIGEN IN MEDIEVAL AND
EARLY MODERN TIMES

Peter W. Martens
Perplexa haereditas: Origen in the Western Middle Ages . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Lenka Karfíková
Beatus Origenes, diligentissimus rerum inquisitor: “The Spiritual Body”
and Other Origenian Themes in John Eriugena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Elena Rapetti
Between History and Hagiography: Origen in French Jansenism . . . . 279

Marilyn A. Lewis
Henry Hallywell (1641–1703): A Cambridge Origenist
in Parochial Sussex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Elisa Bellucci
Origen between Kabbalism and Divine Wisdom:
The Role of the Alexandrian in the Work of Johann Wilhelm and Johanna Eleonora Petersen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

CONCLUSION

Theo Kobusch
The Losable and the Unlosable: Origen’s Anthropological
Achievement and its Impact throughout Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335