Origen on First Principles - Origen; Koetschau, Paul, 1857-1939.; Butterworth, G. W. (George William), 1879-; Rufinus, of Aquileia, 345-410.; Lubac, Henri de, 1896-1991. (Gloucester, Mass. : Peter Smith, 1973)
The Father -- Christ -- The Holy Spirit -- Loss, or falling away -- Rational natures -- The end or consummation -- Things corporeal and incorporeal -- The angels -- The world and the creatures in it -- The perpetuity of bodily nature -- The beginning of the world and its causes -- That there is one God of the law and the prophets, and that the God of the old and new covenants is the same -- The just and the good -- The incarnation of the Saviour -- That it was the same Spirit who was in Moses and the rest of the prophets and in the holy apostles -- The soul -- The world, and the movements of rational creatures both good and evil, and the causes of these movements -- Resurrection and punishment -- The promises -- Free will -- How the devil and the opposing powers are, according to the Scriptures, at war with the human race -- The threefold wisdom -- Whether the statement made by some is true, that each individual has two souls -- That the world is originated and subject to decay, since it took its beginning in time -- The end -- The inspiration of divine Scripture -- How divine Scripture should be read and interpreted -- The principle underlying the obscurities in divine Scripture and its impossible or unreasonable character in places, if taken literally -- Summary of doctrine concerning the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Translated from the original Greek text and from the Latin translation of Rufinus.
Originally published: London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1936. With new introd.
This edition originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1966.
Includes bibliographical references (pages lix-lxi) and indexes.
Keywords: Theology -- Early works to 1800.; Early works