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Origen - Scholarship in the Service of the Church (Hardcover)
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Origen - Scholarship in the Service of the Church (Hardcover)
Series: Christian Theology in Context
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This book is about the life and thought of Origen (c.185-254 A.D.),
the most important Greek-speaking Christian theologian and Biblical
scholar in antiquity. His writings included works on the text of
the Bible, commentaries and sermons on most of the books of the
Bible, a major defense of the Christian faith against a
philosophical skeptic, and the first attempt at writing systematic
theology ever made. Ronald E. Heine presents Origen's work in the
context of the two urban centers where he lived-Alexandria in
Egypt, and Caesarea in Palestine. Heine argues that these urban
contexts and their communities of faith had a discernable impact on
Origen's intellectual work.
The study begins with a description of Roman Alexandria where
Origen spent the first forty-six years of his life. The thought of
the Alexandrian Christian community in which Origen was born and in
whose service he produced his first written works is examined from
the limited resources that have survived. The remains of Origen's
writings produced in Alexandria provide information about his early
theological views as well as the circumstances of his life in
Alexandria. Heine discusses the issues of the canon and text of the
Bible used by Origen and the Alexandrian Christian community and
the special work called the Hexapla which he produced on the text
of the Septuagint.
Origen's later life in Caesarea was shaped by pastoral as well as
teaching duties. These responsibilities put him in contact with the
city's large Jewish population. Heine argues that the focus of
Origen's thought shifts in this period from his earlier Alexandrian
occupation with Gnostic issues to the complex questions concerning
the relationship between church and synagogue and the ultimate fate
of the Jews. In his final years it appears that Origen was
rethinking some of the views he had espoused in his earlier work.
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