Origen

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Early Christian teacher who explains faith in a new way and is later declared wrong by the Church

proper noun
/ˈɔrɪdʒən/

: Orígenes

But it would be unfair to call the theses condemned fair representations of Origen's thought.
Origen and Clement
Origen and Arius
Origen and Gregory

Examples

Thus for Gregory, as for Origen, divine punishment is not punitive but pedagogical.

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Of special concern are elements of Origen's cosmology and anthropology.

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In other places, Origen does not seem so sure about the final rehabilitation of the demons.

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The answer to this question is of central importance for understanding Origen on the subject of apocatastasis.

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Perhaps no text brought this out for Origen as well as 1 Corinthians 3:11-15.

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Arius agreed with Origen that the Son of God participates in the divinity of the Father.

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In the end, Origen's statements on this matter cannot be brought into a coherent, systematic harmony.

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Within the more differentiated horizon of Middle Platonism, Origen said that the Son of God was divine by participation.

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The universal scope of God's saving action is particularly evident to Origen in 1 Corinthians 15:23-28.

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Origen was a pivotal figure in early Christian theology, helping to shape the understanding of Origen and divine nature.

Surface Forms

Origen main

Etymology

Origen comes from the Latin root origo meaning 'beginning' or 'origin'. A helpful way to remember him is that he was one of the first Christian thinkers, so his name connects to being at the 'origin' of many later theological ideas.