Abstract
Abstract The author of this chapter observes that Origen was the first architect of systematized eschatology. Origen’s spiritual exegesis on New Testament texts transformed ‘last things’ (which in the New Testament corpus had hitherto been a discrete but unorganized part of the apocalyptic heritage) into a cosmic plan of salvation encompassing metaphysics, ontology, cosmology, and ethics. Origen balances a reliance on the Church’s ‘rule of faith’ (Regula Fidei—or basic credal structures), on the one hand, and his magisterial school-style of proposing open-ended questions and a range of possible answers on the other, the author tracks Origen’s views on the End, the Afterlife, Judgement, and Resurrection and beatitude.
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