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Origen On First Principles: Being Koetschau's Text of the De Principiis Translated into English, Together with an Introduction and Notes by G. W. Butterworth
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 270
EAN: 9780844626857
ISBN: 0844626856
Label: Peter Smith Publisher Inc
Manufacturer: Peter Smith Publisher Inc
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 342
Publication Date: 1985-03
Publisher: Peter Smith Publisher Inc
Studio: Peter Smith Publisher Inc
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Rating: - Systematic Theology of Origen, 'the Greatest Teacher of the Church after the Apostles."
"The daring of his genius must not blind us to the drives of his piety. The shortcomings of his doctrine-inevitable in a thinker of the third century who was the very first to build a theology-must not make us mistake the pure quality of his faith." H. De Lubac, introduction.
Origen's Creative Thought:
Origen, "The greatest teacher of the Church after the apostles." Jerome, quoting Didymus the Blind, took the expression of Christian essence and thought to a higher ... Read More
Rating: - " A Sublime Masterwork"
Of all the great Origen's works, his "On First Principles" was the most monumental. It was the first attempt to formulate a coherent system of Christian philosophy, and it also is the best expression of the theologian's general opinions. The work is divided into four parts: book one essentially deals with God and creation, book two with creation (rational and irrational natures), providence, and redemption, and book four with the interpretation of Holy Scripture. Origen's views are based upon the ... Read More
Rating: - A critical edition of Origen's central work
This is the definitive English traslation of Koetschau's (please, Amazon, note the spelling!) edition of Origen's central work. Because the orginal Greek has been lost, it is necessary to reconstruct the original from fragments from all kinds of sources. This Koetschau does, although his use of these sources is a little too liberal in spots. Nevertheless it is helpful in recovering the original, especially in view of Rufinus' defective translation. As a work, it has few peers in Patristic literature. ... Read More
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