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origen

  1. Reader Antonius

    Weird Question: A Title for Origen Adamantius?

    Pax, Ειρήνη, שלום! Christ is Risen! Christus Resurréxit! Χριστός Ανέστη! !המשיח קם Alleluia!!! Blessed Pascha to all! Dear brethren and sistren, As I believe I may have mentioned here before, I am quite a devotee of Origen Adamantius (c. 185 – c. 253), an early Christian theologian that the...
  2. Dale

    Origen and Tertullian on The Lord's Day

    Origen is the earliest Christian author to write whole books of theology. Since keeping the sabbath, or Saturday worship versus Sunday worship, has been debated so many times on CF, what did Origen say about worshiping on the sabbath? Origen did not see a need to keep the Jewish sabbath...
  3. rakovsky

    Two Challenges about Josephus' 1st Century Description of Jesus

    Josephus was a famous first century Jewish historian and the version of his Antiquities of the Jews that has come down to us has an apparently quite sympathetic passage on Jesus called the Testimonium Flavianum, which you can read here: Josephus' Account of Jesus: The Testimonium Flavianum...
  4. P

    Origen - Saint, heretic or just another ECF?

    One controversial subject among traditional churches is the ecclesiastical status of Origen, who was anathematized by Emperor Justinian in an event connected with but not neccessarily (herein is the controversy) a part of the Fifth Ecumenical Council (which by the way my church doesn't even...