Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kwak, Kyeil,

Titel

Symbolic Drama of Passage : Envisioning Scriptural Interpretation as a Symbolic Act with Origen of Alexandria

Ort / Verlag

Paderborn : Ferdinand Schöningh, Brill Deutschland,

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Link zum Volltext

• UTB Scholars Vollzugriff 2024

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Intro -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Origen, a Public Theologian -- 1.1 Origen and Symbol -- 1.2 Origen and Allegory -- 1.3 Outline and Approach -- 1.4 Origen, A Public Theologian -- Chapter 2 "To Speak in a Manner Proper to the Σύμβολον": Origen's Rereading and Reenacting of the Passover Narrative in Peri Pascha -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Problematizing the Passover Reading in the Post-70 Context -- 2.3 Origen's Tripartite Hermeneutics -- 2.4 The Tripartite Hermeneutics Applied to the Structure and Flow of Peri Pascha -- 2.5 Rereading and Reenacting with the Blood, the Water, and the Logos -- 2.6 Rereading and Reenacting with the Lamb, Scripture, and the Logos -- 2.7 Rereading and Reenacting with a Once-a-Year, Daily, and Once-for-All Sacrifices -- 2.8 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 "The Truth in Enigmas, and Symbols, and Allegories": Semantic Origins and Genealogies of Σύμβολον, Reconstructed by its Kindred Terms -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Common Cosmological Grounds and Questions -- 3.3 Semantic Origins of Σύμβολον -- 3.4 Semantic Genealogies of Σύμβολον -- 3.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 "One Complete Body of the Word": Christian Genealogy of Σύμβολον, Reconstructed from Origen's Contra Celsum -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Origen's Contra Celsum as a Site for Reconstruction -- 4.3 Origen's Christian Genealogy of Σύμβολον, Reconstructed by its Kindred Terms -- 4.4 Interpretation as a Symbolic Act of Comparing and Matching -- 4.5 Interpretation as a Symbolic Act for Θεωρία -- 4.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 "Linking up the Words of the Torah with One Another": Origen's Witness to Rabbinic Literal Allegory Carried Out in a Symbolic Manner -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Origen and the Rabbis -- 5.3 Rereading the Passover Narrative with the Mekiltot -- 5.4 Reenacting the Passover Narrative with the Mishnah.
• 5.5 "To Make a Fence around the Torah" -- 5.6 Rabbinic Literal Interpretation Carried Out in a Symbolic Manner -- 5.7 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Conclusion: Symbol, Scripture, and the World -- 6.1 Symbol, Creed, and Sacrament -- 6.2 Symbol, Allegory, and the World -- 6.3 Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Origen's Primary Works -- Other Primary Works -- Secondary Works -- General Index -- Scriptural Index.
• 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., σύμβολον (symbol) became a prominent term along with αἴνιγμα (enigma) and ἀλληγορία (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.
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