Origen’s Philosophy of Freedom in Early Modern Times

Debates about Free Will and Apokatastasis in 17th-Century England and Europe

by Alfons Furst

Book cover: Origen’s Philosophy of Freedom in Early Modern Times

Extent: 304 pages

Publisher: Aschendorff Verlag

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies

Series: Adamantiana

Series volume number: 13

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(November 2019)

ISBN: 9783402137291

Price: $69.00

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The articles of this volume shed new light on the reception of Origen’s concepts of free will and universal salvation in 17th-century England and Europe. The Cambridge Platonists took up the Alexandrian’s libertarian concept of freedom and discussed his core ideas within the new philosophical developments of their own time. In continental Europe, the Dutch Arminians, Jean Le Clerc and the Pietist couple Johanna Eleonora and Johann Wilhelm Petersen dealt with questions related to Origenism.


The articles of this volume shed new light on the reception of Origen’s concepts of free will and universal salvation in 17th-century England and Europe. The Cambridge Platonists took up the Alexandrian’s libertarian concept of freedom and discussed his core ideas within the new philosophical developments of their own time. In continental Europe, the Dutch Arminians, Jean Le Clerc and the Pietist couple Johanna Eleonora and Johann Wilhelm Petersen dealt with questions related to Origenism.

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