Sentences with phrase «says origen»

This is presumptuous, says Origen, for it implies that the «truth of Christianity» is to be decided by a criterion external to itself; but, he continues, the «gospel has a proof which is peculiar to itself and which is more divine than a Greek proof based on dialectical arguments.»

Christian interpreters, says Origen, «should apply this rule in a similar way to other passages.»

Not exact matches

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.»

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.

A quick about Abba Pambo — a contemporary of Origen: «If we asked [him] for a word from scripture or some other thing, he would not give us an answer right away but would say, «I haven't figured out the meaning of this word yet»... It normally happened that he spent two or three whole days, or a whole week without giving us an answer saying «if I do not know what sort of fruit this will bear, whether it is a fruit of death or life, I will not speak.»»

Origen of Alexandria, the first major interpreter of the Bible in the Church's history, said that «the apostle Paul, «teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth,» taught the Church... how it ought to interpret the books of the Law.»

Among the non-East Syrian writers, while Gregory of Nazianzus, Ambrose and Jerome (fathers of the fourth century) held to the Indian apostolate of St. Thomas, Origen, Clementine Recognition, Eusebius of Caesarea, Rufinus of Aquileia and Socrates say that Thomas worked in Parthia.

By saying that English charismatics and imprisoned criminals may be the stuff of theological reflection, and by tying their prayer to the Trinity, the Trinity to Romans 8 and Romans 8 to Origen, Coakley mixes old wine in some very new jugs.

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.

Jerome (342 - 420) is said to have been an ardent supporter of Origen's ideas until 394, but then «made a complete voile - face, and began to stress, with crudely literalistic elaboration, the physical identity of the resurrection body with the earthly body».47 There is a very full discussion in the treatise he addressed to Pammachius.

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

In his commentary on John 2:22 — «After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed in the scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken» — Origen cites the words spoken to Thomas in chapter 20: «Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.»

Origen, in responding to Celsus, said that while Plato's statement was «noble and impressive,» it rested on philosophical agnosticism.

Origen rebuked such views, saying that in heaven we would indeed eat, but we would eat the bread of life; we would drink the cup of wisdom.

A good example of his methodology is his discussion of a saying preserved by Origen and now also found in the gospel of Thomas:

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.

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.

When the great Origen commented on the incident of Jesus with his apostles in the storm, he says, «The one who reaches the other side, does so because «Jesus sails with him» but he must do all within his power to get there.»

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