Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis
Subtitle: A Critical Assessment from the New Testament to Eriugena
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 912
ISBN-13: 9789004245709
Description: "The theory of apokatastasis (restoration), most famously defended by the Alexandrian exegete, philosopher and theologian Origen, has its roots in both Greek philosophy and Jewish-Christian Scriptures and literature, and became a major theologico-soteriological doctrine in patristics. This monograph—the first comprehensive, systematic scholarly study of the history of the Christian apokatastasis doctrine—argues its presence and Christological and Biblical foundation in numerous Christian thinkers, including Syriac, and analyses its origins, meaning, and development over eight centuries, from the New Testament to Eriugena, the last patristic philosopher"--Back cover.