Patristic theology generally space and time, and all the orderly relations within the universe, are understood through reference to the creative and all-embracing power and activity of God, but according to Origen God has endowed the creation with His own rationality. This meant, as Origen pointed out, that God has limited Himself in the limitation of creation through its subjection to His own self-comprehension. This had the advantage of regarding space and time as the rational medium through which