Anthropology of Origen’s treatise “De Principiis”

Abstract

This article highlights some of the original Origen’s conceptions about the person: corporeality as a consequence of the fall, the idea of reincarnation, the belief in apocatastasis. The synthesis between ancient philosophy and early Christian theology is the main subject of anthropology developed by this Alexandrian catechist.

Keywords

• anthropology
• trichotomy
• metempsychosis
• apocatastasis
• cosmogony
• антропология
• трихотомия
• метемпсихоз
• апокатастасис
• космогония