Sentences with phrase «read origen»

The rich range of sources drawn on is a strong attraction though a call to read Origen might seem pretty daunting to the more general reader!

When I said that the source for Bernard of Clairvaux's individualistic bridal mysticism was ultimately Origen, I did not think anyone would think I had claimed that Bernard had read Origen in the original Greek (the knowledge of Greek had vanished in the West) or even that he in fact knew that the ultimate source was Origen.

Dr. Podles also suggests I am a picky academic who exaggerated an insignificant and correctable mistake about whether Bernard of Clairvaux read Origen in the Greek.

Not exact matches

Sylvania, for example, was «erudite and fond of literature» (a kind of patron saint for female seminarians); day and night she read the ancient Christian commentators, three million lines of Origen and two and a half million lines of Gregory, Basil, and others.

Origen, the fecund Christian teacher from ancient Alexandria, said, «Genuine transformation of life comes from reading the ancient Scriptures, learning who the just men and women were and imitating them.»

The great motto of Origen of Alexandria was, «Be diligent in reading divine Scripture, knock, it shall open unto you».

Following St. Paul, the Church Fathers argued that a surface reading of the Old Testament, what Origen calls the «plain» meaning, missed what was most important in the Bible: Jesus Christ.

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.

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 sense.

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.»

Origen recognized the limitations of this compromise and relativized both promises in an inclusive system of allegorical readings.

If you would be kind enough, I'd like to know what difference Origen claimed between spirit and soul, and in which work I might read it.

His work The True Word largely survives because the 3rd century teacher Origen made a very longwinded response to it, Against Celsus (which definitely falls into the category of books I have read so that you don't have to).

Thanks to the labors of Jean Daniélou, Henri de Lubac, and Claude Mondésert, French speakers have available the rich series Sources Chrétiennes, well over five hundred volumes of inexpensive paperbacks that allow ordinary Christians to read the writings not only of the Church Fathers but also of major thinkers outside the fold of orthodoxy (Origen, above all) and of spiritual writers (Bernard of Clairvaux, for instance).

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.