Quotes About Origen

La tensión de algo que se veía venir, algo irracional porque venía untado de violencia, imbécil porque tenía su origen en la política, cruel porque en ello había metido la mano la religión.

If you can read the Song of Songs without blushing a little, you're doing it wrong, and Origen wants us to do more than blush.

México carga con una herencia de la cual los priístas se distancian pero de cuyo origen son responsables.

Few outside academia would know that the incongruities so frequently cited today as proof of the Bible's unreliability were noted many centuries ago by such as Origen and Calvin.

The philosophy of the ancients and the Stoics had reserved final wisdom for a chosen few. Christianity delivered those same truths, and the moral virtues that went with them, to the many, right down to slaves and the homeless. Plato was like a chef at a five-star restaurant, Origen said, who only knew recipes that appealed to his handful of wealthy diners. Jesus, by contrast, Origen says, "cooks for the multitudes"—and the multitudes have responded.41

Christianity no longer just summed up ancient civilization's highest aims, as Justin and Clement had argued. It now had the power to save that civilization, Origen proclaimed, by bringing the highest moral principles down to earth right here.

Origen's Platonized theology marks the birth of the Christian humanitarian conscience.

This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

Some superscholars of the day such as Origen tried to resolve the problems in more sophisticated ways, but these views also led to ideas that were later deemed objectionable, such as the view that all of us have souls that preexisted and were brought into the world as a form of punishment.

The other Gospel that Origen mentions, the Gospel of Thomas, has been discovered in its entirety in modern times and is arguably the single most important Christian archaeological discovery of the twentieth century.

Martyrdoms would rarely lead to conversions because they were themselves relatively rare. The vast majority of pagans—including the millions who eventually converted—never saw a martyrdom, as recent scholarship has shown. As the most prolific and one of the best-traveled authors of the first three Christian centuries, Origen of Alexandria, stated in no uncertain terms: "Only a small number of people, easily counted, have died for the Christian religion.

Origen delved into theological areas that had not yet been examined by any of his predecessors in the faith .. Later theologians questioned his orthodoxy, and he was faulted for developing ideas that subsequently led to the major theological schism, the Arian controversy.

Origen says: " The Church hath received it as a tradition from the Apostles that infants, too, ought to be baptized." 21

Later Bernard of Clairvaux, following on Origen's "bridal mysticism," affirms in a sermon on the Song of Songs that Christ appears three times for the believer: in his Incarnation, in his final or "second coming," and in our daily opening the Scriptures.

La gente le da al pico que es un contento. El hombre no viene del mono, viene de la gallina.

For we no longer take up "sword against nation," nor do we "learn war any more," having become children of peace, for the sake of Jesus, who is our leader.

At what age , he wonders, did Origen castrate himself? Not the most graceful solution, but then ageing is not a graceful bussines.

Origen himself warned that in "advanced matters of theology absolute confidence is possible only for two classes of people, saints and idiots.

Pero una vez más se demuestra que la religión monoteísta es un plagio de una habladuría sobre una habladuría de una ilusión sobre una ilusión que se remonta mucho tiempo atrás a la invención de unos cuantos fiascos.

Origen flourished and wrote A. D. 225-235, which shows that at that early day there was no rational evidence for Christianity, but it was professedly taught, and men were supposed to believe "these things" (i. e. the Christian legends) without severe examination.

This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.

Origen, the great Alexandrian church father in the first half of the third century, admitted the truth of the charge "that Christians decline public offices," and declared those persons "enemies of our faith who require us to bear arms for the commonwealth and to slay men.

For hardly any of the ecclesiastical writers have handled the Divine Scriptures more ineptly and absurdly than Origen and Jerome.

The Word became man at the final hour; he became Jesus Christ. But before this visible coming in the flesh, he was already, without being man, mediator for humanity. Origen Commentary on John's Gospel,