Nielsen’s Nook

“ ...only the Image of the Father could re-create the likeness of the Image in  ... ”
St. Athanasius, On the Incarnation : The Treatise De Incarnatione Verbi Dei (1996)

Snapshot of Problems with Origen

John Meyendorff's Christ in Eastern Christian Thought.
  • Cosmology: Creation is co-eternal with God.Â
  • Anthropology: Like Plato, Origen believed in the pre-existence of souls.
  • Christology: Christ is not the λÏ?γοÏ? (logos). Rather Christ is a soul that inhabited a human body (Platonic influence). This is similar to the "assumed man" of Nestorius that did not distinguish between eternal generation of the Son and creation in time.
  • Eschatology: There is not a bodily resurrection; rather, Origen held to á¼?Ï?οκαÏ?άÏ?Ï?αÏ?ιÏ? (apokatastasis), which is the belief that we are freed from our bodies and returned to our original immaterial state. Under the rubric of á¼?Ï?οκαÏ?άÏ?Ï?αÏ?ιÏ? even Satan will be restored.