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All Blog Posts With Tag: Origen of Alexandria

As a protestant within the Reformed Church Tradition, I find that I and everyone around me are largely ignorant about Eastern Orthodoxy, and hardly know the differences between Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism. If asked, most will reply the filioque, icon veneration, the Great Schism, episcopalian government without a pope, and lots […]
 
Origen of Alexandria (185-232) was famous for his Neo-Platonic allegorical method often referred to as "Origenism". Often this involves extreme typology that the meaning derived from the text often appears absurd. This type of Typology is common throughout the Patristics, with the one anchor being in the person of Christ. All […]
 
A papyrus fragment of Origen's commentary on Genesis Schøyen Collection MS 2634/2 Origen's The First Principles is a proto-Systematic Theology, and in Book III, Origen discusses Election with more scrutiny than in previous chapters. The Latin translation by Rufinus is a paraphrase and often softens the text to favor the later and more widely […]
 
Origen of Alexandria and apokatastasis: Edward Moore Origen of Alexandria's writings on Election and Predestination must be read while keeping his teachings on Universalism and Resurrection in mind. Origen's doctrine of ἀποκατάστασις (apokatastasis or apocatastasis) is famous for supporting Universalism (or Universal Reconciliation), that is that all people will eventually saved and […]
 
Origen on Christology (June 6, 2012)
Origen of Alexandria (circa 184 – 254 A.D.) is an Ante-Nicene Church Father, and arguably the most scholarly man in the early Church between Paul and Augustine. However, Origen was on-and-off the Church's reading list for what became to be known as Origenisms or his allegorical methods that produced some possibly heterodox doctrines […]