THE STORY OF THE COPTS - THE TRUE STORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN EGYPT

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B. ORIGEN



  1. The enigma of ecclesiastical history.

  2. A precocious child.

  3. His father's martyrdom.

  4. His deanship and valour.

  5. Expansion of curriculum.

  6. Error into which he fell.

  7. His type of thinking.

  8. Bishops and princes among his disciples.

  9. Persecution of Caracalla.

  10. Origen in Palestine and Arabia.

  11. "The Spirit Vivifieth".

  12. Two underlying principles.

  13. Origen excommunicated.

  14. Dissension.

  15. Reconciliation.

  16. Persecutions of Decius.

  17. Origen resumes his work when the Persecutions end,
    and dies in Tyre.

  18. His influence on subsequent generations.

  19. Origen is the enigma of ecclesiastical history. He was
    a genius in every sense of the word: a prolific writer, a great
    teacher, an ardent doer. His admirers and devoted followers
    were innumerable, and yet he did not escape having strong
    adversaries who tried to malign him. His name stirred the
    most enthusiastic devotion and the most passionate
    antagonism. Such a singular destiny could only heighten the
    attraction of this singularly interesting fixture of Ancient
    Christianity.
    When we consider the life of Origen, we find that he
    was not only a great man from his childhood, as his most
    outspoken adversary declares,^3 but he was also a man of

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