Sentences with phrase «as origen»

When feeding a calorie dense high protein grain free kibble such as Origen, you'll be feeding slightly less.

For quality grade dog food such as Origen, ACANA, and Eagle Pack, they are about $ 100 per 25 lbs.

As Origen argued in an earlier age, Christianity must be true because it creates the best people.

5:17) Their whole life is, as Origen said, «one single, great continuing prayer.»

While the sayings and stories of the desert fathers have become popular, and names such as Origen, Gregory of Nyssa, Maximus the Confessor, the Syrian Jacob of Sarug, and medievals Richard and Bernard and John of the Cross and Theresa, are often invoked, Cassian has languished.

[14] As Origen has said, our participation in God's image is «our principal substance,» which means it is essential to us.

Is there no «gold of Egypt,» as Origen described Greek learning, to be purloined and rendered amenable to proper use by the faithful?

Alexandrian theologians such as Origen and Athanasius, under the influence of Platonic ideas, believed that the human soul is immortal.

These «absurdities» (as Origen labeled them) were unsubtle hints from God that he wanted the account of creation read in an altogether different way, not as history but as truth «in the semblance of history.»

Indeed, as early as Origen in the third century it was being pointed out that we must not think of the Ascension as a movement in space; and in fact Luke seems to have translated into mythical form, i.e. a pictorial narrative, the universal belief of the early Church that Jesus has ascended to the throne of God, not in a physical manner but in the sense that he has been exalted to Lordship over all the world.

Leviticus, taken only in its literal sense, is more of an obstacle to faith than a means of exhortation or edification, as Origen once observed.

Of course, as Origen had noted all the way back in the third century, much of the material in the four gospels is contradictory.

There is a formidable Christian intellectual tradition addressing these questions; it includes, inter alia, figures so estimable as Origen, Irenaeus, Thomas Aquinas, Teilhard, and, in our own day, thinkers such as Wolfhart Pannenberg.

Mather wrote a huge commentary on the Bible, Biblia Americana, in which he marshaled such patristic writers as Origen, Basil, and Augustine in support of a «spiritual» as well as «literal» interpretation of the first chapter of Genesis.

Not exact matches

These include the magisterial editions of Augustine, Jerome, and Origen, edited by Erasmus himself, as well as numerous other editions by Protestant and Catholic scholars alike.

Today's challenge, as Farrow sees it, is to «recognize our age for what it is» a test» and reject the seductive vision of Origen's modern heirs.»

Jerome speaks of Origen as the greatest teacher of the church after the apostles.

Origen's mental wrestling with the qualified character of divine power already had a close kinsman in Plato in the dialogue known as the Timaeus, from the sixth century CE.

Permit me to preface my remarks by saying that I do not wish to take a position on the thorny doctrinal question whether we know that some (unknown) persons will be damned, although I take it for granted» as do von Balthasar and Neuhaus» that Catholic theology does not hold or teach that we know all will be saved, a proposition it is unlikely even the optimistic Origen affirmed with certainty, and is surely difficult to square with Jesus» repeated teaching on the «two ways» (e.g., Matthew 7:13 «14), especially his answer to the question whether only a few would be saved.

Origen, for this and other idiosyncrasies such as his universalist doctrine of apokatastasis, 32 came to be identified not as orthodox but heterodox by the church's official leadership.

Pannenberg praises Irenaeus» attempts at a Christian philosophical synthesis as superior even to the Alexandrians (Clement, Origen) who followed (op.

Rather, as claimed by Clement of Alexandria and, with much greater intellectual power, Origen, his pupil and successor as head of the Alexandrian Catechetical school, Christianity is paideia, divinely given in Jesus Christ and inspired Christian scriptures, focused in a profound conversion of soul, and divinely assisted by the Holy Spirit.

Such chronicles have always been fraught with ambiguity and the possibility of misinterpretation, however, and such reckonings have generally been disapproved by the church; Origen and Augustine, among many others, both argued that many of the ages chronicled in the OT are simply of unknowable length, and went on to note that the «days» of the creation story simply can not be «days» in the ordinary sense of the term as the sun isn't created until the fourth «day».

From Origen's hope that salvation will eventually be received by all, to Karl Rahner's assertion that other religions can serve as pointers to Christ, to Clark Pinnock's biblical case for a more optimistic view of salvation, I've found that tucked away in the dusty corners of Christian libraries is a wealth of scholarship on the subject.

Origen, however, is part of the debate, for he warns against reading the creation account in Genesis as a scientific description of the world's beginnings.

Thus did Origen, for example, speak of theologia as the effort of the individual to «make sense» out of Scripture but he immediately asserted the tentative nature of any such interpretational In Gregory of Nazianzus the element of indirectness, of being one step removed from the original data, is identified with the word theologia and Pseudo-Dionysius employed it as a synonym for mysticisms

As long ago as the third century the great biblical scholar Origen raised substantial doubts about whether a literal reading of the story made good theological sensAs long ago as the third century the great biblical scholar Origen raised substantial doubts about whether a literal reading of the story made good theological sensas the third century the great biblical scholar Origen raised substantial doubts about whether a literal reading of the story made good theological sense.

As to what is being preached and taught: Consider the example of one of the early «church fathers», Origen, who was a Gentile Christian from Alexandria.

Origen regarded the Hebrew text and Hebraic themes as raw data which was to be interpreted using the tools of Greek understanding.

When I think of the original doctrine of the apostles, and considering viewpoints such as the above of «church father» Origen, I can not help but regard the term «church fathers» as a very unfortunate man - made creation indeed.

Neoplatonism heavily influenced many well - known Church Fathers such as St Augustine and Origen.

Especially when, as she notes, Gregory of Nyssa and Origen, in works like their «startling and erotically daring commentaries on the Song of Songs,» expressed affinities that seemed to undermine the primacy of Logos?

Full - fledged bridal mysticism did begin with Origen, but it is not and was not heretical, as my quotation from Ambrose indicates.

However, an alternative concept of Purgatory had also been influential from early on, and was especially promoted by the Church father Origen in the third century: Purgatory as a form of purification to make believers fit for heaven.

In many ways it constituted the prototype for the books of Christian martyrs, and Origen regarded the story of the seven brothers as a wonderful pattern for Christians to follow.

This uneasiness with Christ's true flesh becomes especially clear in a passage from Origen that Besançon quotes as the most telling expression of Origen's implicit iconoclasm:

If you knew me, you would know my Father also» — Origen explains how the term «know» is used in John and in the Bible as a whole.

For Origen, on the contrary, self - knowledge unfolds as a kind of theo - drama between God, the church, and the self.

Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Gregory Nazianzen, and Gregory of Nyssa sometimes speak as though in the end all will be saved.

Clement of Alexandria and Origen, as well as Augustine and Jerome, encouraged Christians to use secular schools, because they recognized the value of Hellenistic culture, provided it was subservient to Christian teaching.

But couldn't help thinking Origen wrote 6,000 books, including many works of genius such as «de Principiis».

The Copts trace their traditions back to St. Mark the Evangelist and count among their luminaries such figures as Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Athanasius, and Cyril of Alexandria.

Think of reality this way, Origen should be read as saying, and you will be able to enter more fully into the wisdom of the Scriptures because you will be thinking scripturally; you will approach the Bible with a biblical view of reality.

Minds like Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Gregory of Nyssa, and above all the Pseudo-Dionysus, believed, as Philo the Jew, that the Judaic and Greek cultures were more complementary than contradictory.

As with other pa - ssages in Josephus relating to Christian themes concern remains over whether the pa - ssage was part of Josephus's original text or instead a later addition — it can be dated back no further than the early 3rd century when it is quoted by Origen in Contra Celsum.

As early as the mid-third century Origen of Alexandria [9] had urged that the actions enjoined by scripture constitute a «practice» that begins a spiritual journey and comprises the Christian life of most people in time; it flowers into pure contemplation in the afterlife as the ultimate and certain reward of faithful practicAs early as the mid-third century Origen of Alexandria [9] had urged that the actions enjoined by scripture constitute a «practice» that begins a spiritual journey and comprises the Christian life of most people in time; it flowers into pure contemplation in the afterlife as the ultimate and certain reward of faithful practicas the mid-third century Origen of Alexandria [9] had urged that the actions enjoined by scripture constitute a «practice» that begins a spiritual journey and comprises the Christian life of most people in time; it flowers into pure contemplation in the afterlife as the ultimate and certain reward of faithful practicas the ultimate and certain reward of faithful practice.

We have as much right to think of Christ's cross in terms understandable and reasonable in our time as men like Origen and Anselm had in their times.

Gregory describes his own soul as being «knit to the soul of Origen,» as the soul of Jonathan was to that of David.

Thus Clement regarded the Didache or Teaching of the Apostles as scriptural; both he and Origen viewed the author of I Clement as the Clement mentioned by Paul in Philippians 4:3 and the author of the Shepherd as the Hernias of Romans 16:4.

Evagrius Ponticus (d. 399), who systematized the thought of Clement of Alexandria, of Origen, and the Cappadocian Fathers, as it applied to the monastic life, distinguished between the «righteous» of the organized church and the «perfect,» or «philosophers,» i.e., the monks and hermits of the monastery and the cell.