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| [[Eusebius]] reported that Origen, following literally, [[castrated himself]]. This story was accepted during the Middle Ages and was cited by [[Abelard]] in his 12th century letters to [[Heloise]]. Scholars within the past century have questioned this, surmising that this may have been a rumor circulated by his detractors. | [[Eusebius]] reported that Origen, following literally, [[castrated himself]]. This story was accepted during the Middle Ages and was cited by [[Abelard]] in his 12th century letters to [[Heloise]]. Scholars within the past century have questioned this, surmising that this may have been a rumor circulated by his detractors. | ||
| ==Contra Celsum== | ==Contra Celsum== | ||
| - | ''[[Contra Celsum|Against Celsus]]'' (Greek: Κατὰ Κέλσου; Latin: ''Contra Celsum''), preserved entire in Greek, was Origen's last treatise, written about 248. Ambrose had requested that Origen provide an answer to a book entitled ''The True Doctrine'' which attacked Christianity, and had been written some time in the second century by an unknown Middle Platonic philosopher named Celsus. Celsus charged that Jesus was a deceptive magician who did miracles by a magic occult power not by a relationship with the divine. In the ancient world few doubted strange powers existed and were used. So-called magic and the miraculous was common place. See: ''[[The Greeks and the Irrational]]'' by [[E. R. Dodds]]. | + | ''[[Contra Celsum|Against Celsus]]'' (Greek: Κατὰ Κέλσου; Latin: ''Contra Celsum''), preserved entire in Greek, was Origen's last treatise, written about 248. Ambrose had requested that Origen provide an answer to a book entitled ''[[The True Doctrine]]'' which attacked Christianity, and had been written some time in the second century by an unknown Middle Platonic philosopher named Celsus. Celsus charged that Jesus was a deceptive magician who did miracles by a magic occult power not by a relationship with the divine. In the ancient world few doubted strange powers existed and were used. So-called magic and the miraculous was common place. See: ''[[The Greeks and the Irrational]]'' by [[E. R. Dodds]]. |
| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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Origen was an early Christian scholar and theologian, and one of the most distinguished of the early fathers of the Christian Church.
Eusebius reported that Origen, following literally, castrated himself. This story was accepted during the Middle Ages and was cited by Abelard in his 12th century letters to Heloise. Scholars within the past century have questioned this, surmising that this may have been a rumor circulated by his detractors.
Contra Celsum
Against Celsus (Greek: Κατὰ Κέλσου; Latin: Contra Celsum), preserved entire in Greek, was Origen's last treatise, written about 248. Ambrose had requested that Origen provide an answer to a book entitled The True Doctrine which attacked Christianity, and had been written some time in the second century by an unknown Middle Platonic philosopher named Celsus. Celsus charged that Jesus was a deceptive magician who did miracles by a magic occult power not by a relationship with the divine. In the ancient world few doubted strange powers existed and were used. So-called magic and the miraculous was common place. See: The Greeks and the Irrational by E. R. Dodds.
See also
- Pope Anastasius I
- Adamantius (Pseudo-Origen)
- Atonement (ransom view)
- Church fathers
- Christian mystics
- Simlai
