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Apr 13, 2024 · David Burnfield explains why the condemnation of Origen must be reevaluated in light of the facts.David's excellent book can be found here:https://a.co/d/j3Q...
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This unit, Athens & Jerusalem: early Christianity and Greek thought, explores the development of Christian engagement with Greek culture, focusing on the wor...
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Wes and Ethan open the season by introducing Origen, the church Father who will be leading us through the Gospel of John.
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 ...
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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; in collaboration with the martyr Pamphilus he had composed the "Apology for Origen"; he dwelt at Caesarea where Origen's library was preserved, and where his memory still lingered; if at times he may be thought somewhat p...
Origen at Alexandria
Born in 185, Origen was barely seventeen when a bloody persecution of the Church of Alexandria broke out. His father Leonides, who admired his precocious genius was charmed with his virtuous life, had given him an excellent literary education. When Leonides was cast into prison, Origen would fain have shared his lot, but being unable to carry out his resolution, as his mother had hidden his clothes, he wrote an ardent, enthusiastic letter to his father exhorting him to persevere courageously....
Origen at Caesarea
Expelled from Alexandria, Origen fixed his abode at Caesarea in Palestine (232), with his protector and friend Theoctistus, founded a new school there, and resumed his "Commentary on St. John" at the point where it had been interrupted. He was soon surrounded by pupils. The most distinguished of these, without doubt, was St. Gregory Thaumaturgus who, with his brother Apollodorus, attended Origen's lectures for five years and delivered on leaving him a celebrated "Farewell Address". During the...
By this term is understood not so much Origen's theology and the body of his teachings, as a certain number of doctrines, rightly or wrongly attributed to him, and which by their novelty or their danger called forth at an early period a refutation from orthodoxwriters. They are chiefly: Before examining how far Origen is responsible for these theor...
The discussions concerning Origen and his teaching are of a very singular and very complex character. They break out unexpectedly, at long intervals, and assume an immense importance quite unforeseen in their humble beginnings. They are complicated by so many personal disputes and so many questions foreign to the fundamental subject in controversy ...
Jul 28, 2009 · Extract. 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 ...
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Sep 1, 2019 · Origen of Alexandria (c. 184 – c. 253) was an early Christian scholar, ascetic, and prolific writer. He produced roughly 2,000 treatises, including textual criticism, biblical exegesis and biblical hermeneutics, homiletics, and spirituality. He was one of the most influential figures in early Christian theology, apologetics, and asceticism.
