Spirit and letter in Origen and Augustine
Ludlow, Morwenna
Date: 2013
Book chapter
Publisher
T & T Clark international
Abstract
Discussions of the reception of Paul’s opposed terms ‘spirit’ and ‘letter’ in 2 Corinthians 3 have tended to claim that Origen read the opposition in a hermeneutical sense, and specifically that he read it in a way which justified his alleged preference for ‘spiritual’ (or allegorical) interpretation over literal readings of Scripture. ...
Discussions of the reception of Paul’s opposed terms ‘spirit’ and ‘letter’ in 2 Corinthians 3 have tended to claim that Origen read the opposition in a hermeneutical sense, and specifically that he read it in a way which justified his alleged preference for ‘spiritual’ (or allegorical) interpretation over literal readings of Scripture. Augustine is then presented as a counter to this tendency: he is claimed to have returned to a theological or a soteriological interpretation. The strong implication of many of these discussions is that Augustine thereby recovered a more faithful reading of the Pauline text.
Classics, Ancient History, Religion and Theology
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
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