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Origen (Hardcover)
Joseph W. Trigg
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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 analyses 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. eBook available with sample pages: 0203011996
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 analyses 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 lsting framework for CHristian theology by finding through study of the Bible a coherent understanding of God's saving plan.
In 2012 Dr. Marina Marin Pradel, an archivist at the Bayerische
Stattsbibliotek in Munich, discovered that a thick 12th-century
Byzantine manuscript, Codex Monacensis Graecus 314, contained
twenty-nine of Origen's Homilies on the Psalms, hitherto considered
lost. Lorenzo Perrone of the University of Bologna, an
internationally respected scholar of Origen, vouched for the
identification and immediately began work on the scholarly edition
that appeared in 2015 as the thirteenth volume of Origen's works in
the distinguished Griechische Christlichen Schrifsteller series. In
an introductory essay Perrone provided proof that the homilies are
genuine and demonstrated that they are, astonishingly, his last
known work. Live transcripts, these collection homilies constitute
our largest collection of actual Christian preaching from the
pre-Constantinian period. In these homilies, the final expression
of his mature thought, Origen displays, more fully than elsewhere,
his understanding of the church and of deification as the goal of
Christian life. They also give precious insights into his
understanding of the incarnation and of human nature. They are the
earliest example of early Christian interpretation of the Psalms,
works at the heart of Christian spirituality. Historians of
biblical interpretation will find in them the largest body of Old
Testament interpretation surviving in his own words, not filtered
through ancient translations into Latin that often failed to convey
his intense philological acumen. Among other things, they give us
new insights into the life of a third-century Greco-Roman
metropolis, into Christian/Jewish relations, and into Christian
worship. This translation, using the GCS as its basis, seeks to
convey, as faithfully as possible, Origen's own categories of
thought. An introduction and notes relate the homilies to the
theology and principles of interpretation in Origen's larger work
and to that work's intellectual context and legacy.
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