Early Christian theologian — the greatest scholar of the early church — who attempted to synthesize Christianity with Platonism, wrote the first systematic Christian theology (First Principles), and who is the original source of Christian universalism (apokatastasis: the restoration of all things).
Developed apokatastasis — the argument that divine love requires the ultimate restoration of all rational beings, including the devil — making Origen the intellectual father of Christian universalism that David Bentley Hart and others have revived in the 21st century.
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