Sentence examples for origen in from inspiring English sources

His discovery in the Swedish royal library of some fragments of a commentary on St. Matthew by the Greek theologian Origen (c. ad 185 c. 254) led to an edition of Origen in 1668.

As dozens of writers have pointed out, from Origen in the second century to Percy Dearmer in the 20th (trying to comfort those who faced imminent death in the trenches of Flanders), God is meant to be love.

Under the influence of the Christian Catechetical school at Alexandria (led by Clement and Origen in the 2nd and 3rd centuries ad), the earlier religious speculations of the Egyptians concerning their festivals were enhanced by further mystical and spiritual interpretations that affected Christian worship, piety, doctrine, and iconography, especially in Eastern Christianity.

He also had familiarity with Rufinus' Latin translation of Origen's On First Principles and was often linked with Origen in medieval times.

Origen in particular was inspired by Numenius' distinction between the first God and the immediate agent of creation, a second, creator god, a distinction which is meant to preserve the immutability of the highest God (Origen, Against Celsus VII.42 44, Commentary on John I.6.35; Kritikos 2007, 409 416).

In the chapter on Origen in Vincent of Lérins' Commonitorium primum, Vincent writes: "quos ad Philippum imperatorem, qui primus romanorum principum Christianus fuit, Christiani magisterii acutoritate conscripsit".; "with the authority which [Origen] assumed as a Christian Teacher, he wrote to the Emperor Philip, the first Roman prince that was a Christian".

His own scholarship included "Early Christian Thought and the Classical Tradition: Studies in Justin, Clement and Origen" (1966), in which he emphasized the importance of the Greek roots of the church.

In the 3rd century, Origen suggested in his Homilies on Matthew that the wife of Pilate had become a Christian, or at least that God sent her the dream mentioned by Matthew so that she would convert.

(Origen believed in the preexistence of souls, but not in transmigration nor in the incorporation of rational souls in animal bodies).

If these persons were incorporeal only in the looser sense that Origen recognises in First Principles, proem 10, he could not have drawn such an antithesis between the Godhead and the angelic creation.

To qualify as a DOCA (Denominación de Origen Calificada) in Rioja, a wine must be aged in oak, softened, for at least a year before release.