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Origen's father taught him about literature and philosophy [30] as well as the Bible and Christian doctrine. [30] [31] Eusebius states that Origen's father made him memorize passages of scripture daily. [32] Trigg accepts this tradition as possibly genuine, given Origen's ability as an adult to recite extended passages of scripture at will. [32]
Origen, or Origen Adamantius (c. 185 – c. 254) was a scholar and theologian. According to tradition, he was an Egyptian [27] who taught in Alexandria, reviving the Catechetical School where Clement had taught. The patriarch of Alexandria at first supported Origen but later expelled him for being ordained without the patriarch's permission.
Rufinus admitted that he made more changes to the Homilies on Leviticus than Origen's homilies on the other books of the Pentateuch.He wrote in the translator's preface that the "duty of supplying what was wanted I took up because I thought that the practice of agitating questions and then leaving them unsolved, which he frequently adopts in his homiletic mode of speaking, might prove ...
Greek text of Origen's apologetic treatise Contra Celsum, which is considered to be the most important work of early Christian apologetics [1] [2]. Against Celsus (Greek: Κατὰ Κέλσου, Kata Kelsou; Latin: Contra Celsum), preserved entirely in Greek, is a major apologetics work by the Church Father Origen of Alexandria, written in around 248 AD, countering the writings of Celsus, a ...
Doctor of the Church: Jacob of Serugh [9] [16] [20] 521: a.k.a. Mar Jacob Jerome: 420: one of the Four Great Doctors of the Western Church: John Cassian [2] [20] 435 John Chrysostom: 407: one of the Four Great Doctors of the Eastern Church and one of the Three Holy Hierarchs: John Climacus [20] 649 John of Damascus: 749
In his somewhat free translation of Origen's De Principiis (Περὶ Αρχῶν), published 398/399, Rufinus downplayed these controversial passages. In the preface to De Principiis, Rufinus referred to Jerome as an admirer of Origen, and as having already translated some of his works with modifications of ambiguous doctrinal expressions ...
According to the Christian historian Eusebius, Leonides' son was the early Church father Origen. [1] Eusebius also says that he was of Greek nationality. [1] In the same passage Eusebius tells us that Leonides was martyred during the persecution of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus in the year 202 AD. Condemned to death by the Egyptian ...
Theophilus of Alexandria was sympathetic to the supporters of Origen [1] and the church historian, Sozomen, records that he had openly preached the Origenist teaching that God was incorporeal. [13] In his Festal Letter of 399, he denounced those who believed that God had a literal, human-like body, calling them illiterate "simple ones".