In the Image of Origen - Eros, Virtue, and Constraint in the Early Christian Academy

"This book is the first that I know of to do proper justice to the Address of Thanksgiving to Origen by Gregory Thaumaturgus, a work easy to ignore or underestimate because of its elaborate rhetorical format. Satran gives it a proper in-depth treatment. The result is an admirable study of this neglected work, drawing out all its varied riches in a very readable mode."—John Dillon, Regius Professor Emeritus of Greek, Trinity College, Dublin

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. Providence, Eros, and Constraint
2. Dialectic and the Training of the Mind
3. Moral Formation and the Path to Scripture
4. Paradise and the Cave
5. Paideia, Loss, and Prospect

Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

David Satran is the Leeds Senior Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Summary

The most prominent Christian theologian and exegete of the third century, Origen was also an influential teacher. In the famed Thanksgiving Address, one of his students delivered an emotionally charged account of his tutelage in Roman Palestine. This analysis of the text sheds new light on higher education in the early Church.

Additional text

"[L]ocates [value] in contemporary Origen literature as a helpful resource for those who want to delve deeper into a learned, loving ancient tribute . . ."

Product details

• Authors: David Satran, Satran David
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9780520291232
• ISBN: 978-0-520-29123-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage; Transformation of the Classica; Transformation of the Classical Heritage
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, History of Religion, The Early Church