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Origenist|ˈɒrɪdʒɪnɪst| [-ist.] A disciple or follower of the famous Greek Christian Father Origen of Alexandria (c 185–253), or a holder of some one of the special doctrines attributed to Origen, among which were a threefold sense (literal, moral, and mystical) in Scripture, the pre-existence of souls, and the probable ultimate salvation of all men and of the fallen angels.
1546Gardiner Declar. Joye xvi, Then shuld no man be dampned, but al saued at the last, as the Origenistes sayed. 1796Burke Regic. Peace iv. Wks. IX. 43 He is an Origenist, and believes in the conversion of the Devil. 1858R. A. Vaughan Ess. & Rem. I. 43 Many of the Origenists held opinions which the departed Origen would never have sanctioned. attrib.1874Blunt Dict. Sects s.v., A very able defence of Origenist opinions was printed anonymously, in the year 1661, by Rust, bishop of Dromore. b. See quot. 1874.
1647A. Ross Mystag. Poet. iii. (1675) 77 The Encratites, Or[i]genists, Manicheans, and all other Hereticks, who hath condemned Matrimony. 1874J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects s.v., From Epiphanius it appears that there was a sect of Origenists who were followers of some unknown Origen... These Origenists are spoken of as given to shameful vices. So † Oriˈgenian n. (= prec.) and a. (= next); † Oriˈgenic, Oriˈgenical adjs., pertaining or attributed to Origen; ˈOrigenism, the doctrines held by or attributed to Origen; ˌOrigeˈnistic a., pertaining or relating to Origenism or the Origenists; ˈOrigeˌnize v. intr., to follow Origen, maintain Origenistic opinions.
1661G. Rust Origen 19 A perfect explication of the Trinity after the *Origenian way. 1666S. Parker (title) Account of the Nature and Extent of the Divine Dominion and Goodnesse, especially as they refer to the Origenian Hypothesis, concerning the Pre-existence of Souls. 1727–41Chambers Cycl., Origenians,..a sect of ancient heretics, who even surpassed the abominations of the Gnostics. St. Epiphanius speaks of them as still subsisting in his time... They rejected marriage. 1879R. Ornsby in Dubl. Rev. July 64 A fourth branch of the Origenian evidence is prophecy and its fulfilment.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 810 The *Origenick Hypothesis..That in Angels, there is a Complication of Incorporeal and Corporeal Substance both together. Ibid. 819 This Origenick Opinion in Photius.
1600Abbot Exp. Jonah 2 To follow the letter of the text, and to lay down the doctrine of it..without allegories *Origenicall.
1727–8Chambers Cycl. s.v. Origenist, *Origenism spread itself chiefly among the monks of Egypt. 1833J. H. Newman Arians i. i. (1876) 6 Origenism has been assigned as the actual source from which Arianism was derived. 1903W. Bright Age of Fathers II. xxix. 54 Anastasius..condemned Origenism in a Roman synod. 1908L. B. Radford (title) Three Teachers of Alexandria: Theognostus, Pierius and Peter. A Study in the Early History of Origenism and Anti-Origenism. 1960H. C. Graef tr. Altaner's Patrology v. 242 He [sc. Methodius] is important principally as a successful opponent of Origenism. 1966H. Chadwick Early Christian Thought & Classical Tradition iv. 120 In judging the system of Origen as a whole it is important to remember that some of the most characteristic features of ‘Origenism’ are not his personal invention.
1853J. C. Robertson Hist. Chr. Ch. iii. vi. §3 (1874) 299 Theodore Ascidas, a monk of *Origenistic opinions. 1880Farrar Hist. Interpr. 205 Origenistic allegory and Philonian methods.
Ibid. 202 The most *Origenising of all the Fathers. |