Origen
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- Origenian adjective
- Origenism noun
- Origenist noun
- Origenistic adjective
Example Sentences
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“God, creator of human bodies,” Origen argued, “knew that such was the fragility of the human body that it could be subject to different kinds of maladies and injuries.”
From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2022
Origen, the scholar and Church Father, born late in the second century A.D., tended to believe that, in the end, all would be spared.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2019
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
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
Origen, born a Christian, made a teacher apparently by chance and in the confusion of a persecution, cared little, in the first instance, for what pagan philosophy would think of him.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.
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