{"product_id":"origen-and-prophecy-claire-hall-9780192846648","title":"Origen and Prophecy: Fate, Authority, Allegory, and the Structure of Scripture","description":"Origen is frequently hailed as the most important Christian writer of his period (c.185-c.255 AD), and the first systematic theologian. \u003cem\u003eOrigen and Prophecy: Fate, Authority, Allegory, and the Structure of Scripture\u003c\/em\u003e examines whether there was a system to Origen's thinking about prophecy. How were all of these quite different topics - future-telling, moral leadership, mystical revelation - contained in the single word 'prophecy'? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eOrigen and Prophecy\u003c\/em\u003e presents a new account of Origen's concept of prophecy which takes its cue from the structure of Origen's thinking about scripture. He claims that scripture can be read in three different senses: the straightforward, or 'somatic' (bodily) sense; the moral, or 'psychic' (soul-ish) sense; and the mystical, or 'pneumatic' (spiritual) sense. This threefold structure, says Origen, underpins all of scripture and is intimately linked through Christ with the structure of the Holy Trinity. This book illustrates how Origen thought about prophecy using the same threefold structure, with somatic (future-telling), psychic (moral), and pneumatic (mystical revelatory) senses. The chapters weave through several centuries of Greek pagan, Jewish, and Christian thinking about prophecy, divination, time, human nature, autonomy and freedom, allegory and metaphor, and the role of the divine in the order and structure of the cosmos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Claire Hall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0192846647\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192846648\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/24\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.60w x 0.90d","brand":"Claire Hall","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43993083183359,"sku":"9780192846648","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_56f712a2-5ad2-47be-8322-3532e80bf069.jpg?v=1683322431","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/origen-and-prophecy-claire-hall-9780192846648","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}