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...discussing the first question, Murray and Niebuhr are particularly relevant. Murray suggests the example of Origen, who was the first man to devise a truly Christian education, that is, an education which tried to subsume all knowledge into the Christian Revelation. Origen felt that only the man who had mastered all the intricacies of Hellenic thought could hope to convert Alexandria. And so he set to work to incorporate the rationalism, pluralism, secularism, the skeptical positivistic tradition which emphasized what men knew over what he did not know, the world of Alexandria's Academy and Library, the anomic world...
...historical relation between a people's theology and its society . . . We anticipate his visit. We introduce a problem of interpretation which concerns us." And what sort of answer comes? "Professor A patiently explains to us that Aristotle's essences differ from Plato's forms, that Origen was an important figure in early Christian philosophy, and that Augustine took the problem of evil seriously...
Will Satan be saved? The great 3rd century theologian Origen seems to have thought so, and some of the early church writers agreed with him. But Christian theology crystallized around the opposite view: the Devil is everlastingly damned to an everlasting Hell, and Dante put it in a famous nutshell with the inscription over the gate to his Inferno-Abandon hope, all ye who enter here...
Catholic scholars outlined last week another great project in religious translation: a 72-volume edition of the writings of the early Church Fathers-including a number of texts never available in English. The edition will include major works of such early molders of Christian doctrine as Tertullian, Origen, Jerome, Ambrose, Augustine and Chrysostom, down to Gregory the Great of the 6th Century. The seven-year task will be guided by Dr. Ludwig Schopp, editor and publisher of Traditio, an annual volume of learned essays, who has enlisted the aid of most U.S. Catholic authorities on the language, history and theology...
...liberal Bishop Herman Page, the commission consists of sixteen churchmen and laymen including Colorado's Bishop Irving Peake Johnson, Missouri's Bishop William Scarlett, longtime Director of the Russell Sage Foundation John Mark Glenn, onetime (1917-21) U. S. Ambassador to Japan Roland Sletor Morris, and Justice Origen S. Seymour of the Connecticut Court of Common Pleas. Three years later the commission persuaded the Church to split Canon 41 for the first time, by permitting pastors to remarry a) the innocent party in a divorce for adultery, b) those who had secured annulments for any of nine premarital...