The Origenic doctrine of the Pre-existence of souls in relation to the Christian Canon

Abstract

In this paperthere is an attempt to examine the cosmological and anthropological issue on the souls' preexistence in relation to the tangible universe and the human bodies in Orígenes' work. Our target is defmitely not to show whether the theologian' s wiewpoints from Alexandria are correct or not but to bring forward the historie terms within wich he formulated them. We present bis potential influence by Plato himself as well as sorne other views by sorne other theologians of his era. W e support that Orígenes' deflections from Christian teaching are due to the fact that he tried to explain issues wich had not been systematically developed.