"Origen is frequently hailed as the most important Christian writer of his period (c.185-c.255 AD), and the first systematic theologian. Origen and Prophecy: Fate, Authority, Allegory, and the Structure of Scripture examines whether there was a system to Origen's thinking about …
"Origen and Prophecy presents a new reading of the concept of prophecy in the work of Origen of Alexandria (c.185-22 AD). While prophecy in classical antiquity was focused primarily on telling the future, Jewish and early Christian writers began to discuss prophets as moral lead…
Dream interpretation was a prominent feature of the intellectual and imaginative world of late antiquity, for martyrs and magicians, philosophers and theologians, polytheists and monotheists alike. Finding it difficult to account for the prevalence of dream-divination, modern sc…
Testo, traduzione e cura delle due omelie di Origene sul Cantico dei Cantici nella traduzione latina di Girolamo.
Testo, traduzione e cura delle due omelie di Origene sul Cantico dei Cantici nella traduzione latina di Girolamo.
"These are the only three existing ante-Nicene treatises on the Lord's Prayer, and they became the starting point for many other commentaries. Of the three, however, only the discourse of Cyprian is an address to catechumens. Tertullian's treatise contains additional material on…
Although the practice of “magic” and the activity of demons were major topics of interest to early Christian thinkers, the terms and concepts that scholars use to engage this material has remained ill-defined. Early scholarship generally classified the belief in "magic” and “dem…
Die antike christliche Kosmologie ist als Auslegung des biblischen Schöpfungsberichtes und gleichzeitig als Teil der antiken kosmologischen Debatte zu verstehen, die maßgeblich von der Diskussion um Platons Timaeus geprägt ist.<br />Charlotte Köckert arbeitet heraus, wie drei be…
"Der hier vorgelegte Band versammelt insgesamt acht Beiträge (von Vertretern der Klassischen Philologie, der Kirchengeschichte, der Philosophie und der Religionswissenschaft), die sich mit den möglichen Beziehungen zwischen dem christlichen Theologen Origenes und dem platonische…
by Origen
fromOxford early Christian texts
Origen was the greatest intellectual in the third century church, and the most influential of all the Greek Church Fathers. His writings covered many different subjects, including commentaries on most of the books of the New Testament and many of the Old Testament. Late in his l…
by Origen
fromOxford early Christian texts
Origen was the greatest intellectual in the third century church, and the most influential of all the Greek Church Fathers. His writings covered many different subjects, including commentaries on most of the books of the New Testament and many of the Old Testament. Late in his l…
