Les Fins Dernires Selon Origne

This volume is concerned with the eschatology of Origen, the great 3rd century theologian and philosopher of Alexandria. Of all the doctrines attributed to him, those on the resurrection of man and the end of days have evoked the most opposition and controversy, from Antiquity to the Patristic scholarship of today. Professor Crouzel argues that the thought of Origen himself has been consistently misunderstood and distorted, from the time of Methodius of Olympia onwards, and that renewed examination of Origen's own surviving writings can lead to a radically differing assessment of the orthodoxy of his views. Among the particular points discussed are Origen's doctrine of Purgatory, commonly supposed to be a particularity of the Latin Church, and the relationship in his thought between the final purification at the end of time and the spiritual purification of existence here on earth. Ce volume traite de leschatologie dOrigne, le grand thologian et philosophe alexandrin du IIIe sicle. De toutes les doctrines qui lui sont attribues, ce sont celles sur la resurrection de lhomme et a la fin des jours qui ont provoqu le plus doppositionet de controverse de lAntiquiti jusqu notre poque. Le Pre Henri Crouzel maintient que la pense veritable dOrigne t constamment mal interpretee et corrompue et ce, ds lpoque de Mthode dOlympe. Selon lauteur, un nouvel examen des crits dOrigne peut mener une apprciation totalement diffrente de lorthodoxie du theeologien. Parmi les points spcifiques debattus sont: la doctrine dOrigne sur la purgatoire - communment suppose tre un domaine latin - et sur le rapport, dans ses penses, entre lultime purificationde la fin des temps et celle, dordre spirituel, de lexistence ici-bas sur terre.