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Origen, Gender, and Sexuality in the Song of Songs - Coggle Diagram
Origen, Gender, and Sexuality in the Song of Songs
SEX
Men are subject to sexual desire, not women. Women are merely temptations unless they are a wife
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Sex is evil
"everyone who is not yet rid of the vexations of flesh and blood...has not ceased to feel the passion of his bodily nature" (Origen 23)
The purest love (charity) exists independently from sexual desire, therefore sex makes all other love impure
"this Charity...it is against its nature to love anything corruptible, seeing that it itself the found of incorruption" (Origen 33)
"you must take whatever Scripture says about charity as if it had been said with reference to passionate love" (34
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Sex is natural and must be controlled, Origen corroborates Paul's approach to sexuality
"Everyone who has reached...puberty loves something...But some people pervert tis faculty of passionate love" (Origen 36)
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GENDER
Fatherhood is the final phase of spiritual development, a notion which excludes women
"a person is a child in age according to the inner man, who has it in him the power to grow...to come to the perfect man and to be made a father (Origen 26)
"John calls these people children or lads or young men or even fathers according to the soul's age" (Origen 26)
The soul (inner man) ages like a man, from child to father. In order to develop the soul into a father, it must be stripped of carnal desire
“I could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto little ones in Christ. I gave you milk to drink, not meat” (1 Corinthians 3:1)
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Men are subject to sexual desire, not women. Women are merely temptations unless they are a wife
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"the inner man is renewed from day to day...the outer, he declares to be corrupted and weakened" (Origen 25)
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