The Origenist Controversy: The Cultural Construction of an Early Christian Debate

by Elizabeth A. Clark

Book Overview

Around the turn of the fifth century, Christian theologians and churchmen contested each other's orthodoxy and good repute by hurling charges of "Origenism" at their opponents. And although orthodoxy was more narrowly defined by that era than during Origen's lifetime in the third century, his speculative, Platonizing theology was not the only issue at stake in the Origenist controversy: "Origen" became a code word for nontheological complaints...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691603510
• ISBN13: 9780691603513
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"