{"agent_id":"origen","agent_name":"Origen","slug":"apokatastasis","label":"Apokatastasis: will all rational creatures, and perhaps the devil, be restored at the end?","topic":"Apokatastasis","question":"Will all rational creatures, and perhaps the devil, be restored at the end?","position":"It is offered as investigation, not as the rule of faith. If God is to be all in all, the end must resemble the beginning, and the argument follows from freedom and from the purpose of punishment rather than from indulgence.","paragraphs":[[{"t":"It is offered as investigation, not as the rule of faith.","n":[]},{"t":"If God is to be all in all, the end must resemble the beginning, and the argument follows from freedom and from the purpose of punishment rather than from indulgence.","n":[1,2]}]],"texts":"*On First Principles* I.6 and III.6, with the fragments preserved by Jerome in the letter to Avitus; *Commentary on John* on the subjection of all things. Reception: the anathemas of 553; Gregory of Nyssa's development of the doctrine; Balthasar's *Dare We Hope*; the modern dispute over whether the condemned propositions represent Origen or later Origenism.","works":["*On First Principles* I.6 and III.6, with the fragments preserved by Jerome in the letter to Avitus","*Commentary on John* on the subjection of all things"],"reception":"the anathemas of 553; Gregory of Nyssa's development of the doctrine; Balthasar's *Dare We Hope*; the modern dispute over whether the condemned propositions represent Origen or later Origenism.","status":"The doctrine his name carries, condemned three centuries after his death, and stated in the texts with cautions the condemnation ignored.","era":"c. 185 - c. 254 CE","discipline":"Theology, Philosophy","refs":[{"n":1,"work":"On First Principles","page":"pp. 203–204","canonical":"","quote":"'These things are indeed spoken about by us with great fear and caution, discussing and investigating rather than establishing as fixed and certain.","label":"On First Principles, pp. 203–204"},{"n":2,"work":"The Writings of Origen Vol 1","page":"","canonical":"","quote":"And here we may bring the third book to a conclusion. Footnote 745: Finis omnium: \"bonorum\" understood. Footnote 746: Gen. i. 26. Footnote 747: Gen. i. 27, 28. Footnote 748: Imago. Footnote 749: Similitudo. Footnote 750: Cf. 1 John iii. 2. Footnote 751: Cf. John xvii. 24, cf. 21. Footnote 752: Ex simili unum fieri. Footnote 753: Jerome, in his Epistle to Avitus, No.","label":"The Writings of Origen Vol 1"}],"answer":null,"siblings":[{"slug":"the-threefold-sense","label":"The threefold sense: is allegorical reading discovery or invention?"},{"slug":"pre-existence-of-souls","label":"Pre-existence of souls: were rational creatures made equal before the world, and did they fall into bodies?"},{"slug":"subordination","label":"Subordination: is the Son a lesser God, and was the later condemnation reading Nicaea back into a pre-Nicene text?"}]}