Symbolic Drama of Passage

Envisioning Scriptural Interpretation as a Symbolic Act with Origen of Alexandria

Kyeil Kwak (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

X, 148 Seiten

2022 | 2022
Brill | Schöningh (Verlag)
978-3-506-79342-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Origen envisioned scriptural interpretation as a symbolic drama of passage with the Logos-Christ, reuniting what is originally one. During the first three centuries C.E., s mibeta ni (symbol) became a prominent term along with ni Gammami (enigma) and Gamma (allegory) in forming a cosmic formula popular across the Mediterrnean world: symbol encodes the divine mystery in enigmatic forms and allegory decodes them. Having considered Scripture as full of divine symbols, Origen envisioned and practiced allegorical interpretation of Scritpure as a symbolic act of bringing, comparing, and matching its letters under the divine paideia of the Logos-Christ. In seeking three levels of scriptural meaning, Origen construed the cosmos as a tripartite reality and defined the essence of Christianity as a symbolic drama of passage. For Origen, the main actor of this drama is the Logos-Christ in the divine action of gradually leading his bride (i.e., the church) from the visible reality through the invisible reality to the divine reality.

Autor

Kyeil Kwak is a Ph.D. graduate from Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, USA. Currently he is Assistant Professor of Church History and Theology at the School of Divinity, Georgia Central University, USA.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.03.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Patristic Studies in Global Perspective ; 3
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 155 x 235 mm
• Gewicht: 1 g
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
• Schlagworte: Allegory • Cosmos • Enigma • Late Antiquity • Logos-Christ
• ISBN-10: 3-506-79342-X / 350679342X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-506-79342-3 / 9783506793423
• Zustand: Neuware