Panayiotis Tzamalikos (MSc, MPhil, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; PhD, Faculty of Divinity, University of Glasgow) is Professor of Philosophy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His books include The Concept of Time in Origen; Origen: Cosmology and Ontology of Time; Origen: Philosophy of History and Eschatology; A Newly Discovered Greek Father—Cassian the Sabaite Eclipsed by ‘John Cassian’ of Marseilles; The Real Cassian Revisited—Monastic Life, Greek Paideia, and Origenism in the Sixth Century; An Ancient Commentary on the Book of Revelation; Anaxagoras, Origen, and Neoplatonism—The Legacy of Anaxagoras to Classical and Late Antiquity; ​Origen: New Fragments from the Commentary on Matthew; and Guilty of Genius – Origen and the Theory of Transmigration.

“The author presents Origen’s thought as a completely original contribution to ancient philosophy and Christian theology at the same time. He shows convincingly that the classification of Origen as ‘Christian Platonist’ obscures rather that clarifies, since Origen took a critical stance towards several aspects of Platonism. In doing so, the author is able to free Origen’s intellectual profile, on the one hand, from distortion of Eusebius of Caesarea, and, on the other hand, from the clichés of the anti-Origenist polemics in late antiquity, especially in the fifth ecumenical council. With the liberation of Origen from the prison of his often ill-informed theological reception, the author makes an outstanding contribution to research, which in any case should be listened to not only in the field of theology, but also in the field of the history of ancient philosophy.”—Martin Illert, Prof.Dr. University of Halle, Germany

• Preface – List of Abbreviations – Introduction – The Platonic Ideas as ‘thoughts of God’ – The Garments of Skin (Genesis, 3:21) – Adam as the Universal Human Nature – Aetherial Bodies in Neoplatonism and Christianity – Origen on Castration – Conclusion – Postscriptum: Origen and Anaxagoras – Appendix I: Origen’s Commentary on Matthew, 15:1–5 – Appendix II: Cassian Who? On Attempts to Rescue a Figment – Bibliography – Index of Ancient Names – Index of Modern Names.

Panayiotis Tzamalikos (MSc, MPhil, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; PhD, Faculty of Divinity, University of Glasgow) is Professor of Philosophy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His books include The Concept of Time in Origen; Origen: Cosmology and Ontology of Time; Origen: Philosophy of History and Eschatology; A Newly Discovered Greek Father—Cassian the Sabaite Eclipsed by ‘John Cassian’ of Marseilles; The Real Cassian Revisited—Monastic Life, Greek Paideia, and Origenism in the Sixth Century; An Ancient Commentary on the Book of Revelation; Anaxagoras, Origen, and Neoplatonism—The Legacy of Anaxagoras to Classical and Late Antiquity; ​Origen: New Fragments from the Commentary on Matthew; and Guilty of Genius – Origen and the Theory of Transmigration.

“The author presents Origen’s thought as a completely original contribution to ancient philosophy and Christian theology at the same time. He shows convincingly that the classification of Origen as ‘Christian Platonist’ obscures rather that clarifies, since Origen took a critical stance towards several aspects of Platonism. In doing so, the author is able to free Origen’s intellectual profile, on the one hand, from distortion of Eusebius of Caesarea, and, on the other hand, from the clichés of the anti-Origenist polemics in late antiquity, especially in the fifth ecumenical council. With the liberation of Origen from the prison of his often ill-informed theological reception, the author makes an outstanding contribution to research, which in any case should be listened to not only in the field of theology, but also in the field of the history of ancient philosophy.”—Martin Illert, Prof.Dr. University of Halle, Germany

• Preface – List of Abbreviations – Introduction – The Platonic Ideas as ‘thoughts of God’ – The Garments of Skin (Genesis, 3:21) – Adam as the Universal Human Nature – Aetherial Bodies in Neoplatonism and Christianity – Origen on Castration – Conclusion – Postscriptum: Origen and Anaxagoras – Appendix I: Origen’s Commentary on Matthew, 15:1–5 – Appendix II: Cassian Who? On Attempts to Rescue a Figment – Bibliography – Index of Ancient Names – Index of Modern Names.

Panayiotis Tzamalikos (MSc, MPhil, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; PhD, Faculty of Divinity, University of Glasgow) is Professor of Philosophy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His books include The Concept of Time in Origen; Origen: Cosmology and Ontology of Time; Origen: Philosophy of History and Eschatology; A Newly Discovered Greek Father—Cassian the Sabaite Eclipsed by ‘John Cassian’ of Marseilles; The Real Cassian Revisited—Monastic Life, Greek Paideia, and Origenism in the Sixth Century; An Ancient Commentary on the Book of Revelation; Anaxagoras, Origen, and Neoplatonism—The Legacy of Anaxagoras to Classical and Late Antiquity; ​Origen: New Fragments from the Commentary on Matthew; and Guilty of Genius – Origen and the Theory of Transmigration.

“The author presents Origen’s thought as a completely original contribution to ancient philosophy and Christian theology at the same time. He shows convincingly that the classification of Origen as ‘Christian Platonist’ obscures rather that clarifies, since Origen took a critical stance towards several aspects of Platonism. In doing so, the author is able to free Origen’s intellectual profile, on the one hand, from distortion of Eusebius of Caesarea, and, on the other hand, from the clichés of the anti-Origenist polemics in late antiquity, especially in the fifth ecumenical council. With the liberation of Origen from the prison of his often ill-informed theological reception, the author makes an outstanding contribution to research, which in any case should be listened to not only in the field of theology, but also in the field of the history of ancient philosophy.”—Martin Illert, Prof.Dr. University of Halle, Germany

• Preface – List of Abbreviations – Introduction – The Platonic Ideas as ‘thoughts of God’ – The Garments of Skin (Genesis, 3:21) – Adam as the Universal Human Nature – Aetherial Bodies in Neoplatonism and Christianity – Origen on Castration – Conclusion – Postscriptum: Origen and Anaxagoras – Appendix I: Origen’s Commentary on Matthew, 15:1–5 – Appendix II: Cassian Who? On Attempts to Rescue a Figment – Bibliography – Index of Ancient Names – Index of Modern Names.