RT Article
T1 Origen's Understanding of Genesis 1:1-5
JF Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum
VO 26
IS 1
SP 57
OP 69
A1 Heine, Ronald ca. 20./21. Jh.
LA English
PB De Gruyter
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1814733159
AB This essay addresses two key questions that Origen raised about the creation story: the nature of the heaven and earth referred to in Gen 1:1, and the identity of the abyss and the darkness mentioned in Gen 1:2. It argues that he understood the heaven and earth of Gen 1:1 to refer to an immaterial plan for creation conceived and held in God’s Wisdom, and that the abyss and darkness refer to the realm of Satan and the demonic elements. It suggests that Origen's understanding, at least about the second set of questions, had shifted in his later thinking from what it was earlier.
K1 Wisdom
K1 abyss
K1 Beginning
K1 Creation
K1 Darkness
K1 Demonic
K1 incorporeal
K1 preexistent
K1 World
DO 10.1515/zac-2022-0013