Origen"The Paulist Press' determination to search out our own past with the highest standards of excellence in both scholarship and publishing is indeed a light shining at midnight." --Andrew Greeley Universal Press Syndicate Origen--An Exhortation to Martyrdom, Prayer, First Principles: Book IV, Prologue to the Commentary on the Song of Songs, Homily XXVII on Numbers translation and introduction by Rowan A. Greer preface by Hans Urs von Balthasar "Indeed, the soul is led by a heavenly love and desire when once the beauty and glory of the Word of God has been perceived; he falls in love with His splendor and by this receives from Him some dart and wound of love." Origen (c.-----254) Origen was born in Alexandria close to the end of the second century. His life spanned the turbulent years during the collapse of the Roman Empire. He sought to rescue and transform what was best of the Roman world and to translate the Christian spiritual quest into a language intelligible to the thoughtful and educated nonbeliever of his day. Origen is one of the first and most important of the Christian mystics, and many of the great themes of spiritual literature can be traced back to him. Von Balthasar, the eminent Swiss theologian, in his preface says of him, "As towering a figure as Augustine and Aquinas...his work is aglow with the fire of a Christian creativity which even in the greatest of his successors burned merely with a borrowed flame." The collected works in this volume represent the heart of Origen's spiritual vision. The translation and introduction is by Rowan A. Greer of the Yale Divinity School. + |
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... understanding of the Christian life of prayer . And it is one that , in Origen's view , may be derived from Scripture . Thus , we move from the practice of the Christian life to the theory that informs it ; and with Book IV of On First ...
... understanding of the Christian life of prayer . And it is one that , in Origen's view , may be derived from Scripture . Thus , we move from the practice of the Christian life to the theory that informs it ; and with Book IV of On First ...
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... understanding of the Christian life . It is with this stage setting that we must begin . Even before the story Origen expounds , God is thought to exist absolutely apart from any notion of space or time . Biblical statements that might ...
... understanding of the Christian life . It is with this stage setting that we must begin . Even before the story Origen expounds , God is thought to exist absolutely apart from any notion of space or time . Biblical statements that might ...
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... understanding of the world . The Word of God occupies the crucial position in the view , since He mediates between God the Father and the rational creation . At one level He is identical with God ; at another , with the souls who ...
... understanding of the world . The Word of God occupies the crucial position in the view , since He mediates between God the Father and the rational creation . At one level He is identical with God ; at another , with the souls who ...
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... understanding of the Holy Spirit . Sometimes the Spirit is defined as the same as God , but elsewhere He is made subordinate to the Father ( see below , p . 85 ) . To complete the vision Origen has of the Beginning , before time begins ...
... understanding of the Holy Spirit . Sometimes the Spirit is defined as the same as God , but elsewhere He is made subordinate to the Father ( see below , p . 85 ) . To complete the vision Origen has of the Beginning , before time begins ...
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... understanding but also the moral and spiritual as- pects of our nature . For this reason Origen is quite comfortable in speaking of the primordial unity in the Biblical metaphors designed to describe the fellowship between God and ...
... understanding but also the moral and spiritual as- pects of our nature . For this reason Origen is quite comfortable in speaking of the primordial unity in the Biblical metaphors designed to describe the fellowship between God and ...
Contents
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On Prayer | 81 |
Book IV | 171 |
The Prologue to the Commentary on The Song of Songs | 217 |
Homily XXVII on Numbers | 245 |
Indexes | 271 |
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Page 55 - Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? As it is written, For Thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Page 83 - So if you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your bro'ther, and then come and offer your gift.
Page 119 - But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Page 118 - Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your Name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven.
Page 207 - He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities — all things were created through him and for him.
Page 101 - I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
Page 139 - ... How can this man give us His flesh to eat?" 53 So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves.
Page 64 - Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death; "and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.
Page 138 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
Page 139 - I say to you unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.