ORIGEN / Ωριγένης

LECTURES IN PATROLOGY  THE SCHOOL OF ALEXANDRIA
FR. TADROS Y. MALATY
St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Church

English text is revised by
ROSE MARY HALIM

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HIS LIFE
St. Didymus the Blind, the head of the School of Alexandria in the latter half of the fourth century, described Origen as
“the greatest teacher in the Church after the Apostles1.” J. Quasten states, “The School of Alexandria reached its greatest importance under St. Clement’s successor, Origen, the outstanding teacher and scholar of the early church,…a man of encyclopedic
learning, and one of the most original thinkers the world has ever seen2.”
G.L. Prestige says, “He (Origen) was one of the greatest teachers ever known in Christendom… He was the founder of biblical
science, and, though not absolutely the first great biblical commentator, he first developed the principles of exposition to be followed and applied the technique of methodical explanation on the widest possible scale. He inaugurated the systematic treatment
of theology, by writing a book about God, the world, and religion in their several relations. He finally completed and established the
principle that Christianity is an intelligent religion, by bringing the strength and vigor of Greek philosophical insight to clarify the Hebrew
religious institution and Christian spiritual history3.”

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