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Origene e la tradizione alessandrina in Antonio Rosmini

2023

In G. Lettieri, M. Fallica, A.-Ch. Jacobsen (eds.), Progress in Origen and the Origenian Tradition, series “Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity”, 25, Peter Lang, Berlin 2023, pp. 253-273. Abstract: This essay aims at providing data about the role of Origen and the Alexandrian tradition in Antonio Rosmini’s thought. Origen is one of Rosmini’s auctoritates in several significant issues, such as the election of bishops and the (non- ordained) “priesthood of all believers.” But Rosmini also rejects some of Origen’s views, e.g., in his exegesis of John’s Prologue. The last part of this study deals with the “Alexandrian” heritage in Rosmini’s (and J.H. Newman’s) thoughts on the doctrinal, dogmatic, hermeneutical, and ecclesiological progress. Keywords: Antonio Rosmini, Origen, Alexandrian tradition, John Henry Newman, Exegesis

Note su Severo di Antiochia e la tradizione esegetica alessandrina

Atti dell'Accademia delle Scienze di Torino 154 (2020), pp. 111-139

This essay deals with the biblical exegesis of Severus, who was bishop of Antioch between 512 and 518 and was the leading theologian of those Christians who refuted the Chalcedonian definition of the natures of Christ. The mail goal is to show that Severus was influenced not only by the Antiochene exegesis, but also by Origen and the so-called Alexandrian exegetical school. First, the author traces all the explicit references to Origen and Didymus the Blind in Severus’s works, and analyses the method Severus used in reading Origen. Then he focuses on three allegories, which are found in Severus’s Greek fragments: these metaphors were firstly developed by Origen and the Alexandrian school and were probably mediated by Cyril of Alexandria and the Cappadocian fathers, such as Gregory of Nyssa.