The articles of this volume shed new light on the reception of Origen's concepts of free will and universal salvation in 17th-century England and Europe. The Cambridge Platonists took up the Alexandrian's libertarian concept of freedom and discussed his core ideas within the new philosophical developments of their own time. In continental Europe, the Dutch Arminians, Jean Le Clerc and the Pietist couple Johanna Eleonora and Johann Wilhelm Petersen dealt with questions related to Origenism.
Über den Autor
Alfons Fürst ist Professor für Alte Kirchengeschichte, Patrologie und Christliche Archäologie sowie Gründer und Leiter der Forschungsstelle "Origenes" an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface S. 5–10
Alfons Fürst
Concepts of Origenism from Late Antiquity to Modern Times. Freedom between Pre-existence and Apokatastasis S. 11–44
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Download PDFChristian Hengstermann
Freedom as Holistic Hegemonikon Causality. Origenist Libertarianism in Ralph Cudworth’s Treatise of Freewill S. 45–74
Ryan Haecker
A Plastic Possibility for Ralph Cudworth’s Libertarianism S. 75–86
David Leech
Free Will in Henry More S. 87–104
Marilyn A. Lewis
“Somewhere in Episcopius”. George Rust and Henry Hallywell’s Use of the Dutch Arminians S. 105–126
Karen Felter
Body, Spirit and Gender in Anne Conway S. 127–148
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Download PDFAndrea Bianchi
The Cambridge Platonists in Continental Europe. Critique and Erudition in the Bibliothèques of Jean Le Clerc S. 149–180
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Download PDFElisa Bellucci
Origenian, English and Kabbalistic Influences in Johann Wilhelm Petersen’s Apokatastasis Doctrine. The Case of Mysterion Apokatastaseos Panton S. 181–195
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Mysterion Apokatastaseos Panton – Das Geheimnis der Wiederbringung aller Dinge (Bd. I, Gespräch I, lxxvii § 1 p. 52 – lxxxvi § 13 p. 72) S. 196–284
Bible S. 285
Origen S. 286
Ancient and Medieval Sources S. 287–289
Modern Sources S. 290–296
Names and Subjects S. 297