The Spell of the Logos

Origen's construal of the Bible as a textual incarnation of the Word encourages an assimilationist interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures as a proto-Christian gospel. Although in partial agreement with this thesis, this study suggests a non-assimilationist reading of Origen's biblical exegesis.

Michael V. Nieulescu is assistant professor of philosophy at Bradley University. His training includes a degree in classics and doctoral studies in patristic and contemporary continental philosophy. In a series of published articles Niculescu has proposed a critical-phenomenological interpretation of the thought of Greek Patristic authors such as Origen of Alexandria, the Cappadocians or Evagrius Ponticus. In addition to his continued interest in Patristic literature Nieulescu`s current research is focused on the post-modern criticism of the reductionist, power-driven, use of reason (the so-called "logocentrism") in post-Enlightenment continental philosophy, with a particular concentration on logocentrism`s contribution to the ideological repression of the rational-critical and religious-testimonial forms of dissent in recent totalitarianisms.