Origen
On First Principles
Origen
On First Principles
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A two-volume set providing a new edition and translation of one of the most important and controversial texts from early Christianity. It offers a sympathetic understanding of the text, and provides new insights into the structure of the work and the nature of theology as it was practiced in early Christianity.
Stirring and profound.
If I were teaching a course on pre-Nicene Christianity, Behr's edition and translation of On First Principles would be required reading. It elucidates both the fundamentally narrative approach to theology from Irenaeus to Origen as well as the way in which the most significant thinker in the third century was fusing philosophical ideas into the story of God to fill out the "church's teaching."
This translation should now be the point of departure for readers who seek to consult Origen's On First Principles in English ... This is a translation that can be used with students, and on which scholars uncertain in their Latin can rely. This is then a worthy replacement for that by Butterworth which has been the staple for generations of English-speaking readers ... In sum, this is an excellent translation, and a beautifully laid out text. Behr's vision of the work's structure is insightful.
[A] precious resource for scholarship... it presents both a clear account and a seductive resolution of the difficulties which occlude our understanding of the most thoughtful and fecund thinker of the ante-Nicene church.'
Behr has surpassed other laborers in this field and has now also surpassed his previous work with a magisterial edition of Origen's On First Principles. ... Thanks to Behr's unique blend of diligence and free-spiritedness, these volumes bring to life one of the most fearsomely inventive works of theology ever written.
Behr has proven himself to be an able commentator and analyst of early Christian theology in both its Latin and Greek varieties. Here he shows himself also to be a splendid translator of one of the most acclaimed and yet too often unread works of early Christian theology. ... [T]his new edition should prove to be a constant reference point for students of early Christian theology and exegesis and - one might hope - an instigating force for further research upon Origens contribution to theological developments in the third century Christian church.
John Behr is the Dean of St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary and Professor of Patristics and Metropolitan Kallistos Chair in Orthodox Theology at Vrije Universiteit. His previous publications include Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement (2000), The Case Against Diodore and Theodore: Texts and Their Contexts (2011), and Irenaeus of Lyons: Identifying Christianity (OUP, 2013). He is also the co-editor of The Role of Life in Death: A Multidisciplinary Examination of Issues pertaining to Life and Death (Wipf and Stock, 2015; with C. Cunningham).
Stirring and profound.
If I were teaching a course on pre-Nicene Christianity, Behr's edition and translation of On First Principles would be required reading. It elucidates both the fundamentally narrative approach to theology from Irenaeus to Origen as well as the way in which the most significant thinker in the third century was fusing philosophical ideas into the story of God to fill out the "church's teaching."
This translation should now be the point of departure for readers who seek to consult Origen's On First Principles in English ... This is a translation that can be used with students, and on which scholars uncertain in their Latin can rely. This is then a worthy replacement for that by Butterworth which has been the staple for generations of English-speaking readers ... In sum, this is an excellent translation, and a beautifully laid out text. Behr's vision of the work's structure is insightful.
[A] precious resource for scholarship... it presents both a clear account and a seductive resolution of the difficulties which occlude our understanding of the most thoughtful and fecund thinker of the ante-Nicene church.'
Behr has surpassed other laborers in this field and has now also surpassed his previous work with a magisterial edition of Origen's On First Principles. ... Thanks to Behr's unique blend of diligence and free-spiritedness, these volumes bring to life one of the most fearsomely inventive works of theology ever written.
Behr has proven himself to be an able commentator and analyst of early Christian theology in both its Latin and Greek varieties. Here he shows himself also to be a splendid translator of one of the most acclaimed and yet too often unread works of early Christian theology. ... [T]his new edition should prove to be a constant reference point for students of early Christian theology and exegesis and - one might hope - an instigating force for further research upon Origens contribution to theological developments in the third century Christian church.
John Behr is the Dean of St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary and Professor of Patristics and Metropolitan Kallistos Chair in Orthodox Theology at Vrije Universiteit. His previous publications include Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement (2000), The Case Against Diodore and Theodore: Texts and Their Contexts (2011), and Irenaeus of Lyons: Identifying Christianity (OUP, 2013). He is also the co-editor of The Role of Life in Death: A Multidisciplinary Examination of Issues pertaining to Life and Death (Wipf and Stock, 2015; with C. Cunningham).