Origen

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1. Origen - Noun

2. Origen - Proper noun

Meaning

Greek philosopher and theologian who reinterpreted Christian doctrine through the philosophy of Neoplatonism; his work was later condemned as unorthodox (185-254)

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Even read in such broken bits Origen is real food and drink. You can feel it being absorbed, right away, into your very blood. How terse, how compact he is! All this modern stuff is barley-water in comparison. Ida Friederike Görres

About 230, Origen entered on the fateful journey which was to compel him to give up his work at Alexandria and embittered the next years of his life. Source: Internet

All of Origen's works written after 218 are dedicated to Ambrose, including his On Martyrdom, Contra Celsum, Commentary on St. John's Gospel, and On Prayer. citation Ambrose's letters to Origen (praised by Jerome ) are lost, although part of one exists. Source: Internet

After the death of Maximinus, Origen resumed his life in Caesarea of Palestine. Source: Internet

According to him Origen brought to Caesarea the Alexandrian text-type which was used in this codex, and used by Jerome. Source: Internet

A strict adherent of the Church, Origen yet distinguished sharply between the ideal and the empirical Church, representing "a double church of men and angels", citation or, in Platonic phraseology, the lower church and its celestial ideal. Source: Internet

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