gnosai · theologike · physike · katagnosai
The Seba library treats Origen Philosophy in 3 passages, across 2 authors (including Jung, Carl Gustav, Albrecht Dihle).
In Origen the two worlds of Greek philosophy and Gnosis on the one hand, and Christian ideas on the other, interpenetrate in a peaceful and harmonious whole.
Jung identifies Origen’s philosophy as the paradigmatic synthesis of Neoplatonism, Gnosis, and Christianity, achieved through allegorical exegesis that transforms material facts into a cosmos of ideas culminating in the soul’s amor et visio of God.
, Psychological Types, 1921thesis
Both explanations are drawn from Stoic philosophy, which distinguishes between initial and essential causes… Another argument which Origen uses in these chapters is taken from Platonic sources. Since the human soul is preexistent and immortal, punishment and reward, education and purification, cannot be realized within the period of just one of its incarnations.
Dihle demonstrates that Origen’s philosophical method drew simultaneously on Stoic causal theory and Platonic preexistence doctrine to resolve the problem of human moral responsibility under divine providence.
, The Theory of Will in Classical Antiquity, 1982thesis
Origen mentions only choics and pneumatics in his refutation of those who destroy the freedom of man by introducing different kinds of human nature destined either for salvation or damnation… They open up a large field where human activity can be performed and morally evaluated.
Dihle shows that Origen’s philosophical theology resisted Valentinian and Marcionite determinism by preserving a domain of genuine human moral agency, departing from strict Gnostic anthropological typologies.
, The Theory of Will in Classical Antiquity, 1982supporting