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Against claims that Origen causes History to evaporate into barren idealism, his theology is shown to have no other source and aim than historical occurences. Fronting assertions that he has no eschatological ideas, this Eschatology is explicated in all its clarity. Light is cast upon the Aristotelian character of Origen's doctrine of apokatastasis, proving this based on ontological necessity, not a historical one.

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...the study that has best demonstrated that Origen's whole thinking is eschatologically oriented.' Ilaria Ramelli, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy in RBL 04/2008. 'This is an exciting book which makes a formidable contribution to the study of Origen: all students of the great Alexandrian will find much of profit in its pages. T. succeeds admirably in presenting Origen's conception of history as thoroughly dramatic and teleological, while also demonstrating the manner in which Origen's conception of history and of eschatology is fundamentally Pualine. T. has here provided the best available analysis of the crucial relation between eschatology and Christology in Origen's thought. Both this volume and its predecessor are enthusiastically recommended as valuable and exciting reading.' S.W.J. Keough, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses. Louvain Journal of Theology and Canon Law, 2008

...the study that has best demonstrated that Origen's whole thinking is eschatologically oriented.' Ilaria Ramelli, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy in RBL 04/2008. 'This is an exciting book which makes a formidable contribution to the study of Origen: all students of the great Alexandrian will find much of profit in its pages. T. succeeds admirably in presenting Origen's conception of history as thoroughly dramatic and teleological, while also demonstrating the manner in which Origen's conception of history and of eschatology is fundamentally Pualine. T. has here provided the best available analysis of the crucial relation between eschatology and Christology in Origen's thought. Both this volume and its predecessor are enthusiastically recommended as valuable and exciting reading.' S.W.J. Keough, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses. Louvain Journal of Theology and Canon Law, 2008

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Panayiotis Tzamalikos is Professor of Philosophy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He studied at this University (MSc, MPhil) and at the University of Glasgow, Scotland (Ph.D.). He has published extensively on Origen considered in the entire context of both Patristic Thought and Greek Philosophy. His books include The Concept of Time in Origen and Origen: Cosmology and Ontology of Time. Among his articles, Origen: The Source of Augustine's Theory of Time , Origen and the Stoic View of Time , Creation ex nihilo in Origen , The Autonomy of the Stoic View of Time , The Concept of matter in Plato's Timaeus

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