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    • Origen of Alexandria (c. 185 – c. 253), also known as Origen Adamantius, was an early Christian scholar, ascetic, and theologian who was born and spent the first half of his career in Alexandria. He was a prolific writer who wrote roughly 2,000 treatises in multiple branches of theology, including textual criticism, biblical exegesis and hermeneutics, homiletics, and spiri… See more

    Overview

    Origen sought martyrdom with his father at a young age but was prevented from turning himself in to the authorities by his … See more

    Life

    Almost all information about Origen's life comes from a lengthy biography of him in Book VI of the Ecclesiastical History written by the Christian historian Eusebius (c. 260 – c. 340). Eusebius portrays Origen as the perfect Chri… See more

    Diedc. 253 AD (aged c. 69) · Probably Tyre, Phoenice, Roman Empire
    RelativesLeonides of Alexandria (father)
    Works

    Origen was an extremely prolific writer. According to Epiphanius, he wrote a grand total of roughly 6,000 works over the course of his lifetime. Most scholars agree that this estimate is probably somewhat exaggerate… See more

    Views

    Origen writes that Jesus was "the firstborn of all creation [who] assumed a body and a human soul". He firmly believed that Jesus had a human soul and abhorred docetism (the teaching which held that Jesus had come to Ea… See more

    Influence on the Later Church

    Origen is often seen as the first major Christian theologian. Though his orthodoxy had been questioned in Alexandria while he was alive, after Origen's death Pope Dionysius of Alexandria became one of the foremost pr… See more

    Translations

    • The Commentary of Origen On S. John's Gospel, the text revised and with a critical introduction and indices, A. E. Brooke (2 volumes, Cambridge University Press, 1896): Volume 1, Volume 2
    • Contra Celsum, trans Henr… See more

     
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