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Feb 24, 2022 · The controversy is usually traced back to the writings of critics of Origen such as Peter of Alexandria, Methodius of Olympus and Eustathius of Antioch, or even Demetrius of Alexandria, the bishop who is claimed to have caused Origen’s move from Alexandria to Caesarea in ca. 230.10 With Epiphanius and his virulent attacks on Origen in his two main writings, the Ancoratus and the Panarion, in ...
Jul 28, 2009 · The condemnation of Origen is one of the saddest episodes in the history of the Christian church. The breadth of his thought, the keenness of his genius and the wide sympathy of his religion, contrast vividly with the narrow obscurantism of his monkish detractors. It is significant that the final defeat of Origen and the closing of the ...
- Cyril C. Richardson
- 1937
Origen and Origenism. I. Life and Work of Origen. A. BIOGRAPHY. Origen, most modest of writers, hardly ever alludes to himself in his own works; but Eusebius has devoted to him almost the entire sixth book of “ Ecclesiastical History “. Eusebius was thoroughly acquainted with the life of his hero; he had collected a hundred of his letters ...
Jul 7, 2024 · 7 July AD 2024. 8 Comments. Origen (c.185–253) was lauded as “the greatest teacher in the Church, after the Apostles,” by Didymus the Blind (d. 398). But he was also condemned as the “hydra of all heresies” by Theophilus of Alexandria (d. 412). The emperor Justinian I (d. 565) commanded that Origen’s writings should be burned as ...
- Rory Fox
Apr 28, 2010 · During the Decian persecution, Origen was cast into prison, tortured, and condemned to the stake. The death of the emperor prevented his execution, but Origen's health was broken. He died at the age of 69 in 253 or 254. Though he made some mistakes, his contribution was inestimatable. Origen's student, the great church father Gregory of ...
Jan 26, 2016 · Fifteen years later, in 230, Origen returned to Caesarea on his way to Greece. While he was there, Alexander, bishop of Jerusalem, and Theoctistus, bishop of Caesarea, ordained him to the ...
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Much of his teaching was condemned during and after his lifetime, so few of his many writings remain, except as quoted in the works of other writers. A chief reason for Origen’s non-canonization is that he believed in the apokatastasis , which is the idea that in the end all people and all angels, even the fallen ones, will return to their pristine spiritual state.
