Die Cambridge Origenists

The years 1658–1662 represent something of an “Origenist moment” within English theology, one that, in addition to translations and editions of works, produced philosophical systems conceived entirely in the spirit of Origen. The treatise by Anglican Bishop George Rust, published anonymously in 1661, is a manifesto of modern Origenism: in a critical engagement with the new philosophies of Hobbes and Descartes on the one hand and Calvinist theology on the other, the author ingeniously develops Origen’s fundamental insights.