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Add this book to your favorite list ». Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. Sort order. Start your review of On First Principles. Nov 10, Erik Graff rated it really liked it Recommends it for: Christians. Shelves: religion. It was, as I recall, the last term Richardson taught before his death. Clement and Origen, both connected to the catechetical school of Alexandria during the late second and early third centuries, were the most congenial Christian theologians of that era.

Both project a philosophical depth and liberality of spirit entirely lacking in such a near-contemporary as Irenaeus. One gets a sense of persons devoted more to seeking truth and wisdom than to exercising control from their writings. Of the two and based on their extant writings, Origen is the greater intellect and this text may be most representative of his learning.

The orientation is neo-Platonic, which, alongside a healthy dose of commonsense, provides him with a conceptual framework to interpret Christian literature. He is, notably, reliant upon allegorical interpretations of "revealed" scripture when their immediately apparent sense amounts to nonsense. My favorite portion of this book was the part in which he apologetically addressed the accusation of atheism commonly made against his coreligionists.

Rather than making any ontologically monotheistic claim against the polytheists, Origen simply states something along the lines of "we believe in one god so that our souls may become one". This may be viewed as a sort of henotheism, but it is certainly more psychologically sophisticated than such claims as appear in the Hebrew scriptures.

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Review : "[A] precious resource for scholarship View full fingerprint. Oxford Early Christian Texts. Behr, J , Origen: on first principles. Oxford Early Christian Texts, vol.