{"agent_id":"origen","agent_name":"Origen","slug":"the-threefold-sense","label":"The threefold sense: is allegorical reading discovery or invention?","topic":"The threefold sense","question":"Is allegorical reading discovery or invention?","position":"Discovery. Scripture has body, soul and spirit as a person does, and the difficulties in the letter are placed there so that a reader stopped by them will look for the sense that is meant.","paragraphs":[[{"t":"Discovery.","n":[]},{"t":"Scripture has body, soul and spirit as a person does, and the difficulties in the letter are placed there so that a reader stopped by them will look for the sense that is meant.","n":[1,2,3,4]}]],"texts":"*On First Principles* IV, on the interpretation of Scripture; the *Philocalia* extracts made by Basil and Gregory Nazianzen; the *Homilies on Leviticus* and *on Joshua*, where the method is at its most extended. Reception: the Antiochene reaction, especially Diodore and Theodore of Mopsuestia on *theoria* against allegory; Jerome's ambivalence; de Lubac's *Histoire et Esprit*; the modern historical-critical objection that the method licenses anything.","works":["*On First Principles* IV, on the interpretation of Scripture","the *Philocalia* extracts made by Basil and Gregory Nazianzen","the *Homilies on Leviticus* and *on Joshua*, where the method is at its most extended"],"reception":"the Antiochene reaction, especially Diodore and Theodore of Mopsuestia on *theoria* against allegory; Jerome's ambivalence; de Lubac's *Histoire et Esprit*; the modern historical-critical objection that the method licenses anything.","status":"The engine of the whole exegetical corpus and the thing modern scholarship least accepts.","era":"c. 185 - c. 254 CE","discipline":"Theology, Philosophy","refs":[{"n":1,"work":"On First Principles","page":"p. 51","canonical":"","quote":"Is he here making a contrast with the rule and succession of the church on earth, as appealed to in the Preface, perhaps now having come into greater conflict with Demetrius? This might explain the concluding doxology and 'Amen' at the end of Princ. 4.1.7, making Princ. 4.2-3 an expansion of his hermeneutic in a more strained context.","label":"On First Principles, p. 51"},{"n":2,"work":"The Writings of Origen Vol 1","page":"","canonical":"","quote":"FROM THE GREEK. 11. The way, then, as it appears to us, in which we ought to deal with the Scriptures, and extract from them their meaning, is the following, which has been ascertained from the Scriptures themselves.","label":"The Writings of Origen Vol 1"},{"n":3,"work":"The Writings of Origen Vol 1","page":"","canonical":"","quote":"FROM THE LATIN. 12. This point, indeed, is not to be passed by without notice, viz. that there are certain passages of Scripture where this \"body,\" as we termed it, *i.e.* this inferential historical sense, is not always found, as we shall prove to be the case in the following pages, but where that which we termed \"soul\" or \"spirit\" can only be understood.","label":"The Writings of Origen Vol 1"},{"n":4,"work":"The Philocalia of Origen","page":"","canonical":"","quote":"\"Thon shalt write two books, and give one to Clement and one to Grapte. And Grapte shall admonish the widows and orphans, Cleinent shall send to the cities abroad, and thou shalt read to the elders of the Chureh.\" Grapté, who admonishes the widows and orphans, is the bare Jetter of Scripture; 16 admonishes those readers whose souls are in the stage of childhood, and who eannot 1 Luke xi. 52. 2 Prov. xxit.","label":"The Philocalia of Origen"}],"answer":null,"siblings":[{"slug":"apokatastasis","label":"Apokatastasis: will all rational creatures, and perhaps the devil, be restored at the end?"},{"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?"}]}