Origen's Philosophy of Freedom in Early Modern Times Ebook PDF: Debates about Free Will and Apokatastasis in 17th-Century England and Europe
In: Adamantiana Texte und Studien zu Origenes und seinem Erbe v.13
Title -- Preface -- Content -- DEBATES ABOUT FREE WILL AND APOKATASTASIS -- Concepts of Origenism from Late Antiquityto Modern Times -- 1. Origen on freedom between pre-existence and apokatastasis -- 2. Origenism as a concept of the critical reception of Origen -- 3. Humanist Origenism: the rediscovery ofOrigen's metaphysics of freedom -- 4. The Cambridge Origenists on freedom, pre-existence andapokatastasis -- 5. The revival of apokatastasis: from Pico to Petersen -- 6. Apokatastasis and freedom: some modern perspectives -- Freedom as Holistic Hegemonikon Causality -- 1. Introduction: the Cambridge Origenists and the beginnings ofChristian libertarianism -- 2. Christian theology as strict libertarianism -Origen's metaphysics of rational self-motion -- 3. The rational self as first mover - Ralph Cudworth's Origenistmetaphysics of libertarian hegemonikon causality -- 4. Origenist libertarianism - Cudworth's doctrine of freedom -- A Plastic Possibility for Ralph Cudworth's Libertarianism -- Free Will in Henry More -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Free will in the Immortality of the Soul (1659) -- 3. Free will in the Enchiridion Ethicum (1667) -- 4. Free will in the Annotations upon Lux Orientalis (1682) -- 5. Free will in the letters to John Norris -- 6. Conclusion -- "Somewhere in Episcopius"George Rust and Henry Hallywell's Use of the Dutch Arminians -- 1. Arminius and Episcopius on predestination -- 2. The Cambridge Origenists on Arminianism -- 3. George Rust -- 4. Henry Hallywell -- 5. Conclusion -- Body, Spirit and Gender in Anne Conway -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some notes on the approach -- 3. Male and female in creation -- 4. The battle of the sexes -- 5. Conway in dialogue -- 6. Conclusion -- The Cambridge Platonists in Continental Europe -- 1. Jean Le Clerc and Ralph Cudworth -- 2. Scientific discoveries, philosophy and theology.