Abstract

This chapter discusses Origen's doctrine of God. The principal descriptions that Origen ascribes to God are that God is incorporeal, mind, one and simple, the good, ‘he who is’, and that he transcends being and mind. The chapter demonstrates the manner in which he links Middle Platonist and biblical ideas, and turns them to theological purposes. Origen's most lengthy, systematic, and philosophical treatment of the nature of God is found in De Principiis, and it is mainly to its structure and content that references are made, though others of his works are also drawn on, especially the Commentary on John and Contra Celsum.

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