Origen, Plato and the afterlife
This paper argues that at First Principles 2.3.6 Origen is responding to Gnostics who used a particular reading of Plato’s myths about the afterlife to justify their own belief that the elect will go after death into an incorporeal state. It examines (1) the use of the terms idea and phantasia in co...
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Brill Academic Publishers
2021
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