The Subjection of the Son to the Father in Origen’s and the two Cappadocian Gregories: The Unity of the Universalist Tradition (In Russian)

Kaplan, Ilya (2022). The Subjection of the Son to the Father in Origen’s and the two Cappadocian Gregories: The Unity of the Universalist Tradition (In Russian). In: Antonov, Nikolay; Pashkov, Petr (eds.) Nazianzena Rossica (pp. 89-112). Moscow: Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox University Press

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The article considers St Paul’s idea of the Son’s subjection to the Father (together with other related themes from 1 Cor 15:28) in three authors: Origen and the Cappadocian Gregories. Origen ascribed this subjection to the ecclesial body of the Son, the whole humanity, and thus regarded this verse as one of the central arguments from Scripture for the universal restoration. Such an interpretation was adopted by those who read Paul through the lens of Origen’s thought. In particular, his exegetical approach was inherited by Gregory of Nazianzus and Gregory of Nyssa. It is accustomed to regard the latter as the main heir of Origen’s universalist eschatology, which was as such formulated to a large extent in the terms from 1 Cor 15. However, as it is emphasised in the article, there is a no less evident continuity between Origen’s and Gregory of Nazianzus’ readings of this verse, which is unequivocally attested in Or. 30. In this sense, one can say that there exists a single Origenian-Cappadocian exegetical tradition.

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