ABSTRACT
One can seldom speak of the soul in modem English without being taken for either a Christian or a poet. It now seems trite and precious to say that someone 'has no soul' when we mean that he lacks the capacity for wonder and the appreciation of beauty. Though Origen was arraigned on a variety of charges - not all of which, as his advocates pointed out, were consonant with one another - he is never censured simply for maintaining the pre-existence of the soul. It is possible to believe that men can rise to a state from which they have not fallen, and to say that we shall be members of the angelic order in heaven is not to say that we were already angels in the past. Ineologians of the eastern Church are accustomed to distinguish between the image and the likeness of God in man.
