Origene e la tradizione alessandrina in Antonio Rosmini

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.