Binding: Hardcover
Description: Origen is frequently hailed as the most important Christian writer of his period (c.185 - c.255 AD) and the first systematic theologian. Origen and Prophecy: Fate Authority Allegory and the Structure of Scripture examines whether there was a system to Origen's thinking about prophecy. How were all of these quite different topics - future - telling moral leadership mystical revelation - contained in the single word 'prophecy'? Origen and Prophecy presents a new account of Origen's concept of prophecy which takes its cue from the structure of Origen's thinking about scripture. He claims that scripture can be read in three different senses: the straightforward or 'somatic (bodily) sense; the moral or 'psychic (soul - ish) sense; and the mystical or 'pneumatic (spiritual) sense. This threefold structure says Origen underpins all of scripture and is intimately linked through Christ with the structure of the Holy Trinity. This book illustrates how Origen thought about prophecy using the same threefold structure with somatic (future - telling) psychic (moral) and pneumatic (mystical revelatory) senses. The chapters weave through several centuries of Greek pagan Jewish and Christian thinking about prophecy divination time human nature autonomy and freedom allegory and metaphor and the role of the divine in the order and structure of the cosmos.
Title: Origen And Prophecy Fate Authority Allegory And The Structure Of Scripture
Author(s): Hall Claire (Examination Fellow Examination Fellow All Souls College University Of Oxford)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192846648
Pages: 238 Pages
Publication Date: 11/24/2021
Series: Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs
Category: Christian Theology