Origen of Alexandria (c. 184 – c. 253)

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Origen of Alexandria

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/origen/

https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11306b.htm

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• Origen, Homilien zum Buch Genesis (Genesis Homilies), ed. P. Habermehl, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012; translation, R. Heine, Washington: Catholic University of America, 1982.
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Scholarly Literature

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• –––, 1973, “A letter from Origen ‘to friends in Alexandria’”, in D. Neiman and M. Schatkin (eds), The Heritage of the Early Church: Essays in Honour of George Vasilievich Florovsky, Rome: Pontifico Istituto Orientale: 135–150.
• –––, 1980, “La doctrine origénienne du corps resusscité”, Bulletin de Littérature Ecclésiastique, 81: 175–200 and 241–266.
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• Dorival, G., 2013, “Origen”, in J. Carleton-Paget (ed.), The New Cambridge History of the Bible, vol. 1, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 605–628.
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• –––, 1997, “Precursors of Origen’s Hermeneutic Theory”, Studia Patristica, 29: 232–237.
• –––, 1998, “Did Origen Apply the Word Homoousios to the Son?”, Journal of Theological Studies, 49: 658–670.
• –––, 2000, “Clement of Alexandria and his Doctrine of the Logos”, Vigiliae Christianae, 54: 159–177.
• –––, 2006, “Nicene Theology and the Second God”, Studia Patristica, 40: 191–195.
• –––, 2010, “The Fate of the Devil in Origen”, Ephemerides Theologicae Louvanienses, 86: 163–170.
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