The Origenist Controversy: The Cultural Construction of an Early Christian DebateAround the turn of the fifth century, Christian theologians and churchmen contested each other's orthodoxy and good repute by hurling charges of Origenism at their opponents. And although orthodoxy was more narrowly defined by that era than during Origen's lifetime in the third century, his speculative, Platonizing theology was not the only issue at stake in the Origenist controversy: Origen became a code word for nontheological complaints as well.