Origen
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Origen of Alexandria, also known as Origen Adamantius, was an early Christian theologian and ascetic. He was a prolific writer who wrote roughly 2,000 treatises in multiple branches of theology, inclu
Origen as depicted c. 1160
While in Jericho, Origen bought an ancient manuscript of the Hebrew Bible which had been discovered "in a jar", a discovery which prefigures the later discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the twentieth century. Shown here: a section of the Isaiah scroll from Qumran.
Dutch illustration by Jan Luyken (1700), showing Origen teaching his students
Pre-existence
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Pre-existence, premortal existence, beforelife, or life before birth, are terms for the belief that each individual human soul existed before conception, and at some point before birth enters or is pl
Origen
…Origen, or it may have only condemned certain heretical teachings which claimed to be derived from Origen. The Church rejected his teachings on the pre-existence of souls. Almost all information about Origen's life comes from a lengthy biography of him in the Ecclesiastical History written by the Christian…
God resting after creation – Christ depicted as the creator of the world prior to his incarnation as Jesus, Byzantine mosaic in Monreale, Sicily.