When the second council of constantinople shunned origen, they didnt just shun him for his belief in the pre existence of souls. They condemned origenism in whole. Sorry dingbat.
Show me.
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It used to be argued that the extant acts are incomplete, since they make no mention of the debate over Origenism. However, the solution generally accepted today is that the bishops signed the canons condemning Origenism before the council formally opened.[18] This condemnation was confirmed by Pope Vigilius and the subsequent ecumenical council
Or is that an allegory, too?
It is you grasping at straws, TN, because it has nothing to do with the debate and in no way refutes that the early Church interpreted Genesis allegorically. You have still yet to provide any evidence - other than your imagination - that there was a change in how Genesis should have been interpreted.
If orthodoxy were a matter of intention, no theologian could be more orthodox than Origen, none more devoted to the cause of Christian faith. His natural temper is world denying and even illiberal. The saintliness of his life is reflected in the insight of his commentaries and the sometimes quite passionate devotion of his homilies. The influence of his biblical exegesis and ascetic ideals is hard to overestimate; his commentaries were freely plagiarized by later exegetes, both Eastern and Western, and he is a seminal mind for the beginnings of monasticism. Through the writings of the monk Evagrius Ponticus (346–399), his ideas passed not only into the Greek ascetic tradition but also to John Cassian (360–435), a Semi-Pelagian monk (who emphasized the worth of man’s moral effort), and to the West. Yet he has been charged with many heresies.
In his lifetime he was often attacked, suspected of adulterating the Gospel with pagan
philosophy. After his death, opposition steadily mounted, respectful in the Greek Christian Methodius of Olympus’
criticism of his spiritualizing doctrine of the Resurrection (
c. 300), offensive in Epiphanius’ (375), a refuter of Christian heresies, violent in Jerome’s anti-Origenist quarrel with Rufinus (
c. 393–402). Origen had his defenders, especially in the East (Eusebius of Caesarea;
Didymus the Blind, the head of Catechetical School of Alexandria; Athanasius, bishop of
Alexandria, to some degree; and especially the Cappadocian Fathers—
i.e., Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa); but in the West Rufinus’ translation of
De principiis (398) caused scandal, and in the East the cause of Origen suffered by the permanent influence of Epiphanius’ attack.
In the 6th century the “New Laura” (monastic community) in Palestine became a centre for an Origenist movement among the monastic intelligentsia, hospitable to speculations about such matters as preexistent souls and universal salvation. The resultant controversy led
Justinian I to issue a long edict denouncing Origen (543); the condemnation was extended also to Didymus and Evagrius by the fifth
ecumenical council at Constantinople (553). Nevertheless, Origen’s influence persisted, such as in the writings of the
Byzantine monk
Maximus the Confessor (
c. 550–662) and the Irish theologian
John Scotus Erigena (
c. 810–877), and, since Renaissance times, controversy has continued concerning his orthodoxy, Western writers being generally more favourable than Eastern Orthodox.
The chief accusations against Origen’s teaching are the following: making the Son inferior to the Father and thus being a precursor of Arianism, a 4th-century heresy that denied that the Father and the Son were of the same substance; spiritualizing away the resurrection of the body; denying hell, a morally enervating universalism; speculating about preexistent souls and world cycles; and dissolving redemptive history into timeless myth by using allegorical interpretation. None of these charges is altogether groundless. At the same time there is much reason to justify Jerome’s first judgment that Origen was the greatest teacher of the early church after the Apostles.
Origen - Biblical Exegesis, Apologetics, Theology: Origen’s experience as a teacher is reflected in his continual emphasis upon a scale of spiritual apprehension. Christianity to him was a ladder of divine ascent, and the beginner must learn to mount it with the saints in a never-ceasing...
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