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Origen

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Origen of Alexandria (), 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 spirituality. He was one of the most influential and controversial figures in early Christian theology, apologetics, and asceticism. He has been described by John Anthony McGuckin as "the greatest genius the early church ever produced".

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Origen was an early Christian scholar and prolific writer from Alexandria who produced around 2,000 works on theology, biblical interpretation, and spiritual practice, making him one of the most influential figures in early Christianity. He remains significant and debated today because of his enormous intellectual contributions to Christian thought, though his ideas also generated considerable controversy among his contemporaries and later church figures.

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An exhortation to martyrdom
Quae in hoc libro continentur
74 omelie sul libro dei Salmi
Catena patrum græcorum in Santum Joannem
Testi ermeneutici

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“Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured. For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.”
“Every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.”
“The Creator will not appear to have been unjust when, according to the above principles, he placed everyone in a position proportionate to his merit; nor will the happiness or unhappiness of anyone's birth, or any condition whatever that may fall to his lot, be supposed to be due to chance;”
“As the eye naturally seeks the light and vision, and our body naturally desires food and drink, so our mind is possessed with a becoming and natural desire to become acquainted with the truth of God and the causes of things.”
“On the other hand a man admits the energy and control and inspired to strive towards things heavenly and divine”
“The reason why all those we have mentioned hold false opinions and make impious or ignorant assertions about God appears to be nothing else but this, that scripture is not understood in its spiritual sense, but is interpreted according to the bare letter.”

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Philosopher.name: Origen
Philosopher.image: Origen.jpg
Philosopher.caption: Portrayal of Origen from Les Vrais Portraits Et Vies Des Hommes Illustres by André Thévet,
Philosopher.birth_place: Alexandria, Province of Egypt, Roman Empire
Philosopher.death_date: (aged c. 69)
Philosopher.death_place: Probably Tyre, Province of Phoenice, Roman Empire
Philosopher.relatives: Leonides of Alexandria (father)
Philosopher.era: Ancient philosophyHellenistic philosophy
Philosopher.school_tradition: NeoplatonismAlexandrian school
Philosopher.alma_mater: Catechetical School of Alexandria
Philosopher.notable_works: On the First Principles
Saint.name: Origen the Scholar
Saint.feast_day: April 27
Saint.venerated_in: Evangelical Church in Germany
Saint.image: Origen3.jpg
Saint.attributes: Self-castration, monastic habit
Saint.issues: Lack of formal canonization, accusations of heresy

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Commons category: Origen
date of birth: 0185-00-00
date of death: 0254-00-00
name in native language: Ὠριγένης
Commons Creator page: Origen
P13311: David
Stack Exchange tag: christianity.stackexchange.com/tags/origen

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In Jeremiam prophetam commentarii. Item in Baruch et breves Johannis Chrysostomi in Jeremiam explanationes et octo Originis homiliae

Explanatio in epistola Pauli ad Romanos, Divo Hieronymo interprete

La Physionomie ou des indices que la Nature a mis au Corps humain […]

Origenis Hexaplorum Quae Supersunt Sive Veterum Interpretum Graecorum In Totum Vetus Testamentum. 1, Prolegomena, Genesis, Esther

Origenus Philosophumena ē kata pasōn haireseōn elenchos = Origenis philosophumena sive omnium haeresium refutatio

Origenus Dialogos Kata Markiōnistōn, ē peri tēs eis Theon orthēs pisteōs = Origenis Dialogus Contra Marcionitas, sive De recta in Deum fide

Origenus Philosophumena ē kata pasōn haireseōn elenchos = Origenis philosophumena sive omnium haeresium refutatio

Origenus ta heuriskomena panta: ex variis editionibus et codicibus manu exaratis, Gallicanis, Italicis, Germanis et Anglicis collecta atque adnotationibus illustrata, cum copiosis indicibus, vita auctoris et multis dissertationibus. 7, Anonymi in Job: Scripta ad Origenem spectatia; Apologia S. Pamphili pro Origene; Rufini liber de adulteratione librorum Origenis; P. Danielis Huetii Origeniana; Excerptum ex Georgii Bulli Presbyteri Anglicani Defensione Fidei Nicaenae

Theologica

F.m.V.TH.AA.11 (Homiliae in Numeros, Cantica Canticorum et Hieremiam Prophetam)

[Tratados breves de carácter moral y proverbios filosóficos]

Homiliae in Genesim: Exodum, Leviticum, Numeros Jesum Nave et librum Judicum, D. Hieronymo interprete.

Super Job libri III. Ejusdem super canticum Annae homilia I. Ejusdem in canticum canticorum homiliae II Ejusdem in canticum canticorum libri IV- Ejusdem in Hesaiam prophetam homiliae IX. Ejusdem homiliae XVI. Ejusdem in Lucam homiliae VI. Ejusdem in Joannem homiliae II, Hieronymo et Hilario interpretibus

Opus, Periarchon seu de principiis correctum ac interpretatum addito tractatu de natura materiae ad inventa Origenis: et methodo in disciplinam ejusdem a Constantio Hyerotheo. Item apologia Pamphili martyris et Ruffini Aquilegiae presbyteri pro Origene

Opera. (lat.)

In evangelium Joannis explanationum tomi XXXII, quos nunc primum in latinum vertit Ambrosius Ferrarius

Origenis Adamantii Opera Omnia. 7

Origenus Dialogos Kata Markiōnistōn, ē peri tēs eis Theon orthēs pisteōs = Origenis Dialogus Contra Marcionitas, sive De recta in Deum fide

Origenis Adamantii Opera Omnia. 6, [Selecta Et Homiliae In Leviticum. Selecta Et Homiliae In Numeros. Selecta In Deuteronomy. Selecta Et Homiliae In Libr. Jesu Nave]

Origenis Adamantii Opera Omnia. 9, [Commentaria In Proverbia Salomonis. Libri In Canticum Canticorum. Homiliae In Isaiam. Homiliae In Jeremiam]

Hexaplorum Origenis Quae Supersunt Multis Partibus Auctiora, quàm a Flaminio Nobilio et Joanne Drusio edita fuerint :accedunt Opuscula quaedam Origenis Anecdota, & ad calcem Lexicon Hebraicum ex Veterum Interpretationibus concinnatum, itemque Lexicon Graecum & alia, quae praemissus initio laterculus indicabit. 1

De orationi libellus: accedit Marci Diadochi Sermo contra Arianos

Origenis Adamantii Opera Omnia. 12, [Series Veteris Interpretation Commentariorum Origenis In Matthaeum. Origenis In Lucam Homiliae XXXIX]

Origenus Ta Heuriskomena Panta. 1

Origenis Contra Celsum Libri VIII. Et Gregorii Neocaesar. Thaumaturgi Panegyricus in Origenem: Accessere notae & indices

Hexaplorum Origenis quae supersunt. 1

Origenus Ta Heuriskomena Panta. 2

Origenis Philocalia, De Obscvris S. Scriptvrae Locis :Quid insuper in hoc opere contineatur, sequens pag. indicabit

Origenis Hexaplorum Quae Supersunt Sive Veterum Interpretum Graecorum In Totum Vetus Testamentum. 2, Jobus - Malachias, auctarium et indices

Origenus Ta Heuriskomena Panta. 3

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Article

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Contents

Life
Early years
Alleged self-castration
Travels and early writings
Conflict with Demetrius and removal to Caesarea
Work and teaching in Caesarea
Later life
Works
Exegetical writings
Extant commentaries
''On the First Principles''
''Against Celsus''
Other writings
Views
Christology
Cosmology and eschatology
Ethics
Hermeneutics
Theology
Transmission of knowledge
Influence on the later church
Before the Crises
First Origenist Crisis
Second Origenist Crisis
After the anathemas
Translations
See also
Notes
References
Bibliography
Further reading
External links

Origen founded the Christian School of Caesarea, where he taught logic, cosmology, natural history, and theology, and became regarded by the churches of Palestine and Arabia as the ultimate authority on all matters of theology. He was tortured for his faith during the Decian persecution in 250 and died three to four years later from his injuries.