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PublisherPaulist Press

ISBN-100809121980

ISBN-139780809121984

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Book TitleOrigen : an Exhortation to Martyrdom, Prayer and Selected Works

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1979

TopicSpirituality, General

GenreReligion

AuthorRowan A. Greer

Book SeriesClassics of Western Spirituality Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Weight15 oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Preface byBalthasar, Hans Urs von

LCCN79-084886

Dewey Decimal230/.1/3

Synopsis"The Paulist Press' determination to search out our own past with the highest standards of excellence in both scholarship and publishing is indeed a light shining at midnight."--Andrew GreeleyUniversal Press SyndicateOrigen--An Exhortation to Martyrdom, Prayer, FirstPrinciples: Book IV, Prologue to the Commentary on theSong of Songs, Homily XXVII on Numberstranslation and introduction by Rowan A. Greerpreface by Hans Urs von Balthasar "Indeed, the soul is led by a heavenly love and desire when once the beauty and glory of the Word of God has been perceived; he falls in love with His splendor and by this receives from Him some dart and wound of love."Origen (c.-----254)Origen was born in Alexandria close to the end of the second century. His life spanned the turbulent years during the collapse of the Roman Empire. He sought to rescue and transform what was best of the Roman world and to translate the Christian spiritual quest into a language intelligible to the thoughtful and educated nonbeliever of his day.Origen is one of the first and most important of the Christian mystics, and many of the great themes of spiritual literature can be traced back to him.Von Balthasar, the eminent Swiss theologian, in his preface says of him, "As towering a figure as Augustine and Aquinas...his work is aglow with the fire of a Christian creativity which even in the greatest of his successors burned merely with a borrowed flame."The collected works in this volume represent the heart of Origen's spiritual vision.The translation and introduction is by Rowan A. Greer of the Yale Divinity School.+, "The Paulist Press' determination to search out our own past with the highest standards of excellence in both scholarship and publishing is indeed a light shining at midnight." --Andrew Greeley Universal Press Syndicate Origen--An Exhortation to Martyrdom, Prayer, First Principles: Book IV, Prologue to the Commentary on the Song of Songs, Homily XXVII on Numbers translation and introduction by Rowan A. Greer preface by Hans Urs von Balthasar "Indeed, the soul is led by a heavenly love and desire when once the beauty and glory of the Word of God has been perceived; he falls in love with His splendor and by this receives from Him some dart and wound of love." Origen (c.-----254) Origen was born in Alexandria close to the end of the second century. His life spanned the turbulent years during the collapse of the Roman Empire. He sought to rescue and transform what was best of the Roman world and to translate the Christian spiritual quest into a language intelligible to the thoughtful and educated nonbeliever of his day. Origen is one of the first and most important of the Christian mystics, and many of the great themes of spiritual literature can be traced back to him. Von Balthasar, the eminent Swiss theologian, in his preface says of him, "As towering a figure as Augustine and Aquinas...his work is aglow with the fire of a Christian creativity which even in the greatest of his successors burned merely with a borrowed flame." The collected works in this volume represent the heart of Origen's spiritual vision. The translation and introduction is by Rowan A. Greer of the Yale Divinity School. +

LC Classification NumberBR65 .O52 1979