Controversies in Early Christianity: Reincarnation

Reincarnation

• COMMENTARY ON THE PHILOKALIA: THE CONDEMNATION OF EVAGRIOS PONTICOS...by Archbishop Lazar Puhalo
  Evagrios, like Origen, is certain that intellectual beings enjoy free will; and it is on the strength of this conviction that he postulated the retention of free will after death, that the human soul exercises its freedom for the good. It is the condition of the soul's escape from the body and its incessant transmigration to other bodies (metempsychosis or reincarnation). Salvation, in this heretical version, is not resurrection with the body, but from the body," as Plotinus said. The desire of the saved is return to that union with God whereby they may eternally contemplate His Wisdom. For Evagrios that involves "the timeless transformation of the bodiless (asomaton) (Kephalaia Gnostica. II, 87). He sometimes speaks of a "spiritual body," but it has nothing in common with the "glorified body" upon which St Paul discourses (1Cor.15).
• Christian Reincarnation: The Long Forgotten Doctrine
• A NEW ECUMENISM BASED UPON REEXAMINATION OF THE "LOST YEARS" EVIDENCE...James W. Deardorff
• Reincarnation and the Early Christians

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