Skip to main content
Taylor & Francis Group Logo
Advanced Search

Click here to search books using title name,author name and keywords.

  • Login
  • Hi, User  
    • Your Account
    • Logout
Advanced Search

Click here to search books using title name,author name and keywords.

Breadcrumbs Section. Click here to navigate to respective pages.

Chapter

“In My Father’s House Are Many Dwelling Places”:  in Origen’s De principiis

Chapter

“In My Father’s House Are Many Dwelling Places”: in Origen’s De principiis

DOI link for “In My Father’s House Are Many Dwelling Places”: in Origen’s De principiis

“In My Father’s House Are Many Dwelling Places”: in Origen’s De principiis book

“In My Father’s House Are Many Dwelling Places”: in Origen’s De principiis

DOI link for “In My Father’s House Are Many Dwelling Places”: in Origen’s De principiis

“In My Father’s House Are Many Dwelling Places”: in Origen’s De principiis book

ByPatricia Cox Miller
BookThe Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity

Click here to navigate to parent product.

Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2001
Imprint Routledge
Pages 15
eBook ISBN 9781315199535

ABSTRACT

The Son’s nature as image actually undergirds all of the other names, since it is his position as image which, as Origen says, “preserves the unity of nature and substance common to a father and son”. Origen imagined the spherical dwelling places as forming a hierarchy, a series of abodes through which the soul traveled in descending movements from the “height of heaven” to the “lower regions”. According to Origen, the multiple Christ reveals himself in different aspects, forms, according to the state of the soul. Origen’s metaphors of the blood relationship and the seeing in the heart suggest that the round dance toward likeness is a relational process in which the images provide contexts for each other. One of the impressions of Origen’s style is the recognition that theology might be the poetic dance of the soul, a following of the spiraling way of religion’s images. The final catalogue of Wisdom names in the De principiis provides a clue.

T&F logoTaylor & Francis Group logo
  • Policies
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms & Conditions
    • Cookie Policy
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms & Conditions
    • Cookie Policy
  • Journals
    • Taylor & Francis Online
    • CogentOA
    • Taylor & Francis Online
    • CogentOA
  • Corporate
    • Taylor & Francis Group
    • Taylor & Francis Group
    • Taylor & Francis Group
    • Taylor & Francis Group
  • Help & Contact
    • Students/Researchers
    • Librarians/Institutions
    • Students/Researchers
    • Librarians/Institutions
  • Connect with us

Connect with us

Registered in England & Wales No. 3099067
5 Howick Place | London | SW1P 1WG © 2021 Informa UK Limited