Róbert Somos: Theologia naturalis and theologia relevata in Origen’s First Homily on Psalm 77.

The topic of the short communication is the relation between natural theology and Biblical theology in the Greek text of Origen’s Homilies on the Psalms discovered in 2012 and edited in 2015. It seems that the key text is the First Homily on the Psalm 77, where Origen emphasises that the faith in the Creator should be based on experience, because the heaven and the earth manifest a divine order. In the process of becoming Christian, according to Origen, this theistic faith should be prior to the reading of the Scripture, because sometimes the manuscripts of the Scripture suffer from corruption. One of the causes of the corruption is the activity of the Evil. In this way, the heretics influenced by the Evil find their false doctrines in the Scriptures. This thought of Origen is absent in his other works, and I think that the idea of the priority of the cosmological argument helps to grasp the true relation between natural theology and scriptural theology in the Alexandrian master’s thought. Reading of the Homilies on the Psalms and other Origenian works may provide new insight into the complicated question of how can be used the word “philosophy” in the case of Origen and why should we distinguish in the Origenian and modern use of the words of “philosophy” and “philosopher”.