Abstract
The term of natural law plays an important role in the anthropology of the great theologian and philosopher Origen of Alexandria. By distinguishing a great variety of notions of law in the scripture, Origen locates the specific notion of natural law in the guiding part of the soul called the heart and the ἡγεμονικόν or νοῦς in the Bible and philosophy, respectively. The natural law enables man with this location and in interaction with λόγος to distinguish between good and evil and to act ethically. Natural law therefore is the foundation of responsibility and the imputation of sin.
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