Authors:Origen, Barbara J. Bruce, Cynthia White, Origen,
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Keywords: church, fathers, origen, joshua, homilies
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2002-10
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0813201055
ISBN-13: 9780813201054
With this publication, English readers now have available to them the complete homilies of Origen of Alexandria on the book of Joshua. These homilies were among the last Origen gave before his torture and death during the Decian persecution, around 254. With the saga of the Israelites entering and possessing their promised land, Origen unfolds the story of the Christian life from baptism to resurrection. He exhorts his hearers to persevere in their own struggles to overcome the enemies of their souls and obtain their own inheritance. Their leader is Jesus, the Son of God, who is prefigured
Author: Origen
Publisher: Paulist Press
Keywords: selected, works, prayer, martyrdom, exhortation, origen
Number of Pages: 293
Published: 1988-12
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0809121980
ISBN-13: 9780809121984
Author: Origen
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Keywords: fathers, church, kings, jeremiah, homilies, origen
Number of Pages: 358
Published: 1998-01
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0813200970
ISBN-13: 9780813200972
Authors:Origen, R. P. Lawson,
Publisher: Paulist Press
Keywords: ancient, christian, writers, homilies, commentary, song, songs, origen
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 1957-06
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0809102617
ISBN-13: 9780809102617
Origen’s Commentary, the first great work of Christian mysticism, is characterized by extraordinary richness of thought and depth of mystical conception. The Homilies seem to have been written only a few years after the Commentary—probably before 244.
Author: Origen
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: greek, principiis, origen
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 2004-06-17
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1419139258
ISBN-13: 9781419139253
2. But now, since we are treating of the manner in which the opposing powers stir up those contests, by means of which false knowledge is introduced into the minds of men, and human souls led astray, while they imagine that they have discovered wisdom, I think it necessary to name and distinguish the wisdom of this world, and of the princes of this world, that by so doing we may discover who are the fathers of this wisdom, nay, even of these kinds of wisdom.
Author: Origen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: celsum, contra, origen
Number of Pages: 572
Published: 1980-03-31
List price: $74.00
ISBN-10: 0521295769
ISBN-13: 9780521295765
Few works of the early Church are as interesting to the modern reader or as important to the historian as Origen’s reply to the attack on Christianity made by the pagan Celsus. The Contra Celsum is the culmination of the great apologetic movement of the second and third centuries AD, and is for the Greek Church what St Augustine’s City of God is for Western Christendom. It is also one of the chief monuments of the coming together of ancient Greek culture and the new faith of the expanding Christian society. Thus Origen’s work is of interest not only to the historian and theol
Author: Origen
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: celsus, origen
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1419139207
ISBN-13: 9781419139208
Now the "human" wisdom is that which is termed by us the wisdom of the "world," which is "foolishness with God;" whereas the "divine"--being different from the "human," because it is "divine"--comes, through the grace of God who bestows it, to those who have evinced their capacity for receiving it, and especially to those who, from knowing the difference between either kind of wisdom, say, in their prayers to God.
