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Around the turn of the fifth century, Christian theologians and churchmen contested each other’s orthodoxy and good repute by hurling charges of 鈥淥rigenism鈥� 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: 鈥淥rigen鈥� became a code word for nontheological complaints as well. Elizabeth Clark explores the theological and extra-theological implications of the dispute, uses social network analysis to explain the personal alliances and enmities of its participants, and suggests how it prefigured modern concerns with the status of representation, the social construction of the body, and praxis vis—vis theory. Shaped by the Trinitarian and ascetic debates, and later to influence clashes between Augustine and the Pelagians, the Origenist controversy intersected with patristic campaigns against pagan 鈥渋dolatry鈥� and Manichean and astrological determinism. Discussing Evagrius Ponticus, Epiphanius, Theophilus, Jerome, Shenute, and Rufinus in turn, Clark concludes by showing how Augustine’s theory of original sin reconstructed the Origenist theory of the soul’s pre-existence and 鈥渇all鈥� into the body.

Originally published in 1992.

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