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Book Homilies on Judges

    Book Details:
  • Author : Origen
  • Publisher : CUA Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 0813201195
  • Pages : 153 pages

Download or read book Homilies on Judges written by Origen and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No description available

Book Joshua  Judges  Ruth  1 2 Samuel

Download or read book Joshua Judges Ruth 1 2 Samuel written by John R. Franke and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2005-09-23 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early church fathers readily found parallels, or types, in the narratives of the historical books that illumined the New Testament. This ACCS volume features a rich treasure trove of ancient wisdom, including homilies of Origen, commentaries from Gregory of Nazianzus and Bede the Venerable, and question-and-answer works from Augustine, Theodoret of Cyr, and Bede.

Book Homilies on Isaiah

    Book Details:
  • Author : Origen
  • Publisher : CUA Press
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 0813233739
  • Pages : 165 pages

Download or read book Homilies on Isaiah written by Origen and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Urs von Balthasar places Origen of Alexandria “in rank . . . beside Augustine and Thomas” in “importance for the history of Christian thought,” explaining that his “brilliance” has captivated theologians throughout history (Spirit and Fire, 1984, 1). This brilliance shines forth in his nine extant homilies on Isaiah, in which he employs his theology of the Trinity and Christ to exhort his audience to play their crucial role in salvation history. Origen reads Isaiah’s vision of the Lord and two seraphim in Isaiah 6 allegorically as representing the Trinity, and this theme runs throughout the nine homilies. His representation of the seraphim as the Son and Holy Spirit around the throne of the Father brought early accusations that Origen was a proto-Arian subordinationist, followed by a pointed condemnation by Emperor Justinian in 553. These homilies, originally delivered between 245 and 248, are extant only in a fourth-century Latin translation. Though St. Jerome, likely because of these controversies, does not identify himself as the Latin translator, the evidence overwhelmingly points to his pen, and his reliability in conveying Origen’s authentic meaning is well documented. If one sets aside the questionable charges of subordinationism, these homilies, expounding on passages from Judges 6-10, come alive with Origen’s legacy of presenting Christ as the central figure of the soul’s ascent to God. Reading allegorically the two seraphim to be Jesus and the Holy Spirit around the Father’s throne, Origen draws a picture of the Trinity as a tightly knit whole in which the Son and the Holy Spirit eternally sing the Trisagion (“Holy, holy, holy”) to each other and the Father about the divine truths of God’s nature, allowing the part of their song that conveys the “middle things” of salvation history to be heard by creation. The “second seraph” is the Son, or Jesus, who descends holding a hot coal, or Scripture, from the altar of the throne, with which he cleanses Isaiah’s lips, or the believer’s soul. Origen employs his signature exegetical method of allegory and typology through the lens of the threefold meaning of Scripture to emphasize to his hearers that Christ is the deliverer, the content, and the reward of the healing Word. He repeatedly assures them that those who submit to Scripture will enter into salvation history’s cycle of cleansing from sin, growth in virtue, and ever-deepening knowledge of God. As a result, they will become like Christ and thus will be prepared to join the Trinity for all eternity at the heavenly wedding feast.

Book Homilies on the Psalms

    Book Details:
  • Author : Origen
  • Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
  • Release : 2020-12-18
  • ISBN : 0813233194
  • Pages : 503 pages

Download or read book Homilies on the Psalms written by Origen and published by Catholic University of America Press. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2012 Dr. Marina Marin Pradel, an archivist at the Bayerische Stattsbibliotek in Munich, discovered that a thick 12th-century Byzantine manuscript, Codex Monacensis Graecus 314, contained twenty-nine of Origen’s Homilies on the Psalms, hitherto considered lost. Lorenzo Perrone of the University of Bologna, an internationally respected scholar of Origen, vouched for the identification and immediately began work on the scholarly edition that appeared in 2015 as the thirteenth volume of Origen’s works in the distinguished Griechische Christlichen Schrifsteller series. In an introductory essay Perrone provided proof that the homilies are genuine and demonstrated that they are, astonishingly, his last known work. Live transcripts, these collection homilies constitute our largest collection of actual Christian preaching from the pre-Constantinian period. In these homilies, the final expression of his mature thought, Origen displays, more fully than elsewhere, his understanding of the church and of deification as the goal of Christian life. They also give precious insights into his understanding of the incarnation and of human nature. They are the earliest example of early Christian interpretation of the Psalms, works at the heart of Christian spirituality. Historians of biblical interpretation will find in them the largest body of Old Testament interpretation surviving in his own words, not filtered through ancient translations into Latin that often failed to convey his intense philological acumen. Among other things, they give us new insights into the life of a third-century Greco-Roman metropolis, into Christian/Jewish relations, and into Christian worship. This translation, using the GCS as its basis, seeks to convey, as faithfully as possible, Origen’s own categories of thought. An introduction and notes relate the homilies to the theology and principles of interpretation in Origen’s larger work and to that work’s intellectual context and legacy.

Book An Ordination Sermon  on 2 Tim  iv  7  8

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  • Author : Samuel GOBAT (Bishop of the United Church of England and Ireland in Jerusalem.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1850
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book An Ordination Sermon on 2 Tim iv 7 8 written by Samuel GOBAT (Bishop of the United Church of England and Ireland in Jerusalem.) and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Traditional Christian Ethics 4

Download or read book Traditional Christian Ethics 4 written by David W. T. Brattston and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Not to Do Abominable embraces-1 Clement-28.1 Abortion-Athenagoras-Presbeia-35 Abortion-Barnabas-19.5 Abortion-Didache-2.2 Abortion-Doctrina-2.2 Abortion-Hippolytus-Philosophumena-9.7 Abortion-Letter to Diognetus-5.6 Abortion-Minucius Felix-Octavius-30 Abortion-Revelation of Peter-26 Abortion-Sibylline Oracles-2.281f Abortion-Tertullian-Apologeticum-9 Abortion-Tertullian-Exhortation to Chastity-12 Abortion by drugs-Clement of Alexandria-Paedagogus-2.10 (96) Abortionist-Doctrina-5.2 Abstinence, excessive, at the beginning stages-Origen-Homilies on Numbers-27.9.2

Book The Catholic Gentleman

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sam Guzman
  • Publisher : Ignatius Press
  • Release : 2019-04-24
  • ISBN : 162164068X
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book The Catholic Gentleman written by Sam Guzman and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What it means to be a man or a woman is questioned today like never before. While traditional gender roles have been eroding for decades, now the very categories of male and female are being discarded with reckless abandon. How does one act like a gentleman in such confusing times? The Catholic Gentleman is a solid and practical guide to virtuous manhood. It turns to the timeless wisdom of the Catholic Church to answer the important questions men are currently asking. In short, easy- to-read chapters, the author offers pithy insights on a variety of topics, including • How to know you are an authentic man • Why our bodies matter • The value of tradition • The purpose of courtesy • What real holiness is and how to achieve it • How to deal with failure in the spiritual life

Book The Clementine Homilies

Download or read book The Clementine Homilies written by Pope Clement I and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Homilies on Jeremiah and 1 Kings 28

Download or read book Homilies on Jeremiah and 1 Kings 28 written by Origen and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented in this volume are the remains of twenty-two homilies and a collection of fragments delivered by Origen around A.D. 240. The original texts of the homilies on Jeremiah have not come down to us completely; two of the homilies survive only in a Latin translation of St. Jerome. The homily on I Kings 28, while not a part of the homilies on Jeremiah, deals with the Witch of Endor and has been added to this volume in virtue of its own inherent interest.

Book Traditional Christian Ethics

Download or read book Traditional Christian Ethics written by David W. T. Brattston and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional Christian Ethics features two exhaustive alphabetical lists of affirmative commandments and prohibitions from the earliest Christian ethics, as found in writers before the mass apostasy of 249-251 AD. The affirmatives, or positives, list consists of what Christians are/were commanded or encouraged to do. The other list is of negatives or prohibitions, i.e. what Christians are/were discouraged from doing, similarly arranged. The source material for the work encompasses far more than the ten-volume Ante-Nicene Fathers edited by Roberts and Donaldson. It also draws from all writings of the period: Christian, Jewish, and pagan, available in English or French translation, plus a few Latin translations. Some translations have been published only in scholarly journals, and some only in the twenty-first century. Volumes Two and Three form a single exhaustive alphabetical list of affirmative commandments or precepts, including mental attitudes, i.e. what Christian ethics commanded or encouraged according to writers on Christian ethics before 250 AD. Using earlier drafts of this set of books, Dr. Brattston's articles and booklets synthesizing early and contemporary Christianity have been published by a wide variety of denominations and ministries in every major English-speaking country. He hopes readers will use them as a starting-point for writing articles, papers, and sermons of their own.

Book Origen and the Holy Spirit

Download or read book Origen and the Holy Spirit written by Justin J. Lee and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2023-01-23 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an in-depth examination of the pneumatology of Origen of Alexandria. Justin J. Lee argues that Origen conceives of the Holy Spirit as a divine person, but inferior in nature in both person and work. This can be discerned from his understanding of the Son and Father, as well as the influence of Middle Platonism on his theological and cosmological framework. Ontologically, Origen's understanding of Trinity is a hierarchy of divine persons in which the greater ministers to the existence of the lower. Origen's pneumatology can be best understood by examining how he speaks about the work of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit participates in the divine work of salvation, reflecting an economic Trinity of shared work and will. The Spirit's primary role is to indwell and assist the saints. There are two major actions of the Holy Spirit's work: (1) the downward action of God, where the Spirit is the distributor of the divine gifts and graces and (2) the Spirit's upward work of revelation and sanctification, by which he leads the saints to the Son and Father. The Spirit thus serves as the practical and personal initiator of believers into the greater processes of salvation and deification.

Book Origen and Scripture

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter W. Martens
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2012-01-05
  • ISBN : 0199639558
  • Pages : 293 pages

Download or read book Origen and Scripture written by Peter W. Martens and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Origen of Alexandria's approach to the Bible through a biographical lens, focusing on his account of the scriptural interpreter. Martens explores the many ways in which Origen thought ideal scriptural interpreters (himself included) embarked upon a way of salvation, culminating in the everlasting contemplation of God.

Book Origen of Alexandria and the Theology of the Holy Spirit

Download or read book Origen of Alexandria and the Theology of the Holy Spirit written by Micah M. Miller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive account of Origen's pneumatology. In its examination of the Holy Spirit's identity (who the Spirit is) and activity (what the Spirit does), the study reads Origen in his context and surveys his entire corpus. It also provides a fresh perspective of Origen's Trinitarian thought.

Book Purity  Community  and Ritual in Early Christian Literature

Download or read book Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature written by Moshe Blidstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines how early Christian writers drew on ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions to develop their own ideas about purity, purification, defilement, and disgust.

Book A Dictionary of Christian Biography  Literature  Sects and Doctrines

Download or read book A Dictionary of Christian Biography Literature Sects and Doctrines written by Sir William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: