Origen
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- Origenian adjective
- Origenism noun
- Origenist noun
- Origenistic adjective
Example Sentences
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Yet Christian teachers such as Origen of Alexandria vigorously disputed such assumptions.
From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2022
In the third century A.D., it is widely believed, the great Catholic theologian Origen, working on roughly the same principle, castrated himself.
From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2017
For Origen, a third-century Christian, Paradise was not a place but a condition of the soul.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 12, 2017
Origen Adamantius, a third-century theologian, believed the wicked were punished after death, but only long enough for their souls to repent and be restored to their original state of purity.
From National Geographic • May 13, 2016
As long as the persecution lasted, anything like regularity and completeness in a work like that of Origen was clearly impossible.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.
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