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Origen - Scholarship in the Service of the Church (Paperback, New)
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Origen - Scholarship in the Service of the Church (Paperback, New)
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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