Word: origen
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...historical relation between a people's theology and its society . . . We anticipate his visit. We introduce a problem of interpretation which concerns us." And what sort of answer comes? "Professor A patiently explains to us that Aristotle's essences differ from Plato's forms, that Origen was an important figure in early Christian philosophy, and that Augustine took the problem of evil seriously...
Will Satan be saved? The great 3rd century theologian Origen seems to have thought so, and some of the early church writers agreed with him. But Christian theology crystallized around the opposite view: the Devil is everlastingly damned to an everlasting Hell, and Dante put it in a famous nutshell with the inscription over the gate to his Inferno-Abandon hope, all ye who enter here...