Origen | Wikipedia audio article
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Origen


00:04:03 1 Life
00:04:11 1.1 Early years
00:09:13 1.2 Alleged self-castration
00:12:15 1.3 Travels and early writings
00:17:11 1.4 Conflict with Demetrius and removal to Caesarea
00:19:56 1.5 Work and teaching in Caesarea
00:23:35 1.6 Later life
00:25:54 2 Works
00:26:02 2.1 Exegetical writings
00:31:41 2.2 Extant commentaries
00:35:37 2.3 iOn the First Principles/i
00:36:52 2.4 iAgainst Celsus/i
00:38:53 2.5 Other writings
00:41:37 3 Views
00:41:46 3.1 Christology
00:43:22 3.2 Cosmology and eschatology
00:46:24 3.3 Ethics
00:48:32 3.4 Hermeneutics
00:51:17 3.5 Theology
00:54:59 4 Influence on the later church
00:55:09 4.1 Before the crises
00:57:35 4.2 First Origenist Crisis
01:02:31 4.3 Second Origenist Crisis
01:06:44 4.4 After the anathemas
01:11:29 5 Translations
01:11:38 6 See also



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Origen of Alexandria (c. 184 – 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 biblical hermeneutics, homiletics, and spirituality. He was one of the most influential figures in early Christian theology, apologetics, and asceticism. He has been described as "the greatest genius the early church ever produced".Origen sought martyrdom with his father at a young age, but was prevented from turning himself in to the authorities by his mother. When he was eighteen years old, Origen became a catechist at the Catechetical School of Alexandria. He devoted himself to his studies and adopted an ascetic lifestyle as both a vegetarian and teetotaler. He came into conflict with Demetrius, the bishop of Alexandria, in 231 after he was ordained as a presbyter by his friend, the bishop of Caesarea, while on a journey to Athens through Palestine. Demetrius condemned Origen for insubordination and accused him of having castrated himself and of having taught that even Satan would eventually attain salvation, an accusation which Origen himself vehemently denied. 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.
Origen was able to produce a massive quantity of writings due to the patronage of his close friend Ambrose, who provided him with a team of secretaries to copy his works, making him one of the most prolific writers in all of antiquity. His treatise On the First Principles systematically laid out the principles of Christian theology and became the foundation for later theological writings. He also authored Contra Celsum, the most influential work of early Christian apologetics, in which he defended Christianity against the pagan philosopher Celsus, one of its foremost early critics. Origen produced the Hexapla, the first critical edition of the Hebrew Bible, which contained the original Hebrew text as well as five different Greek translations of it, all written in columns, side-by-side. He wrote hundreds of homilies covering almost the entire Bible, interpreting many passages as allegorical. Origen taught that, before the creation of the material universe, God had created the souls of all the intelligent beings. These souls, at first fully devoted to God, fell away from him and were given physical bodies. Origen was the first to propose the ransom theory of atonement in its fully developed form and, though he was probably a Subordinationist, he also significantly contributed to the development of the concept of the Trinity. Origen hoped that all people might eventually attain salvation, but was always careful to maintain that this was only specu ...