The Oxford Handbook of Origen

by Heine, Ronald E.; Torjesen, Karen Jo

• ISBN13: 9780199684038
• ISBN10: 0199684030
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-05-17
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Ronald E. Heine, Professor Emeritus of Bible and Theology, Bushnell University, USA,Karen Jo Torjesen, Professor Emerita of Religion, Claremont Graduate University, USA

Ronald E. Heine earned his B.A., M.A., and M. Div in New Testament studies at Lincoln Christian College and Seminary. He earned his Ph. D. at the University of Illinois where his major was Classical Philology with a specialization in the Church Fathers. His dissertation was directed by
William Schoedel. He has taught at several church related colleges and universities in the U. S. From 1989-2000 he was Director of the Institut zur Erforschung des Urchristemtum in Tübingen, Germany. His field of specialization is second and third century Christianity.

Karen Jo Torjesen is a Professor Emerita of Religion at Claremont Graduate University. Her research interests include constructions of gender and sexuality in early Christianry, authority and institutionalization in the early churches, hermeneutics and rhetoric in late antiquity, and
transnational feminism. She is the author of Hermeneutical Procedure and Theological Structure in Origen’s Exegesis and When Women Were Priests, and co-editor of Women in American Christianity and Indigenous Peoples and the Modern State.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Karen Jo Torjesen
Part I: Origen in His Contexts
1. The Social History of the Alexandrian Church, Atilla Jacab
2. Origen and the Alexandrian Schools, Winrich Löhr
3. Origen's Reworking of the Legacy of Greek Philosophy, Robert Berchman
4. Origen's Dialogue with Heracleon and the School of Valentinus, Ismo Dunderberg
5. Origen's Indebtedness to Clement of Alexandria, Annewies van den Hoek
6. Origen's Use of Philo Judeaus, Justin Rogers
7. Origen's Dialogue with the Rabbis of Caesarea, Daniel Boyarin
8. Difficulties in Writing a Life of Origen, Arturo Urbano
Part II: Origen and the Hermeneutics
9. Origen's Biblical Interpretation and Classical Forensic Rhetoric, Geoffrey D. Dunn
10. The Contribution of Bernhard Neuschäfer's Origenes als Philologe, Gerardo Rodriguez
11. Rethinking the Alexandrian - Antiochian Hermeneutical Antithesis, Frances Young
Part III: Origen and the Bible
12. Origen's Commentaries on the Old Testament, Maren Niehoff
13. Origen's Commentaries on the Gospels, Ronald E. Heine
14. Origen's Pauline Commentaries, Francesca Cocchini
15. Origen's Homilies on the Bible, Francesco Pieri
Part IV: Origen's Theology
16. Origen as a Theologian: An Overview, Rebecca Lyman
17. Origen as Apologist for the Christian Faith, Mark Edwards
18. The Hermeneutical Foundations of Origen's Soteriology, Michael Vlad Niculescu
19. The Three Hypostases in Origen: Proto-Trinitarian Theology, Christian Hengstermann
20. The Development of Origen's Christology in the Context of Second and Third Century Christologies, Peter Martens
21. Origen's Theological Anthropology, José Alviar
22. Origen's Understanding of Theodicy, Mark Scott
23. Origen's Eschatology, John McGuckin
Part V: Receptions of Origen
24. The Transmission of Origenism from Athanasius to the Cappadocians, Andrew Louth
25. Controversies over the legacy of Origen in the fourth through the sixth centuries, Rick Layton
26. Origen's Influence on Augustine, Michael Cameron
27. The Influence of Origen on Erasmus, Tom Scheck
28. Origen in the Reformation and Renaissance, Andrea Villani
Part VI: Modern Contributions to the Study of Origen
29. The Contribution of Pierre Daniel Huet to the Modern Study of Origen, Elena Rapetti
30. The Discovery of the True Origen by Twentieth Century Scholars, Robert Daly
31. A New Greek Text of Origen's Homilies on the Psalms: Description and Assessment of Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Cod. graec. 314, Lorenzo Perrone