Authors: Joseph Wilson Trigg Wilson
ISBN-13: 9780415118361, ISBN-10: 0415118360
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: August 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Origen was the most influential Christian theologian before Augustine, the founder of Biblical study as a serious discipline in the Christian tradition, and a figure with immense influence on the development of Christian spirituality.
This volume presents a comprehensive and accessible insight into Origen's life and writings. An introduction analyzes the principal influences that formed him as a Christian and as a thinker, his emergence as a mature theologian at Alexandria, his work in Caesarea and his controversial legacy. Fresh translations of a representative selection of Origen's writings, including some never previously available in print, show how Origen provided a lasting framework for Christian theology by finding through study of the Bible a coherent understanding of God's saving plan.
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1 | The making of a scholar and theologian | 3 |
2 | The mature years at Alexandria | 15 |
3 | Man of the church at Caesarea | 36 |
4 | A controversial legacy | 62 |
Commentary on Psalms 1-25, fragment from preface | 69 | |
Commentary on Lamentations, selected fragments | 73 | |
Commentary on Genesis, fragment from Book 3 | 86 | |
Commentary on John, Book 1 | 103 | |
Commentary on John, Book 13.3-192 | 150 | |
Homily 12 on Jeremiah | 179 | |
Homilies 19 and 20 on Luke | 193 | |
Homily 5 on 1 Samuel | 199 | |
Letter to Gregory | 210 | |
Commentary on John, Book 32.1-140 | 214 | |
Commentary on John, Book 32.318-67 | 233 | |
Notes | 241 | |
Bibliographical note | 274 | |
Index of Scriptural citations | 275 | |
Subject index | 287 |