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Origen

American  
[awr-i-jen, -juhn, or-] / ˈɔr ɪˌdʒɛn, -dʒən, ˈɒr- /

noun

  1. Origenes Admantius, a.d. 185?–254?, Alexandrian writer, Christian theologian, and teacher.


Origen British  
/ ˈɒrɪˌdʒɛn /

noun

  1. ?185–?254 ad , Christian theologian, born in Alexandria. His writings include Hexapla, a synopsis of the Old Testament, Contra Celsum, a defence of Christianity, and De principiis, a statement of Christian theology

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Yet Christian teachers such as Origen of Alexandria vigorously disputed such assumptions.

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 implies that “the men of old” regarded it as Paul’s, and that some churches at least in his own day shared this opinion.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various

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