{"id":27032,"date":"2012-06-14T05:21:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T09:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/06\/origen-attracts-new-interest-w\/"},"modified":"2012-06-14T05:21:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T09:21:21","slug":"origen-attracts-new-interest-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/06\/origen-attracts-new-interest-w\/","title":{"rendered":"Origen attracts new interest with discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/origen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"origen.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2012\/06\/origen-thumb-250x339-11873.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"339\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Yesterday there was a very brief article in the newspaper from the AP about the discovery of homilies from Origen (AD 185-253\/4) Church father (theologian) from Alexandria, Egypt. Later I noticed a friend on Facebook telling us a little more of the discovery the homilies on the Psalms. Few of his texts are extant. The press release (in German) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsb-muenchen.de\/Einzeldarstellung.402+M53f1166a989.0.html\">is noted here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>More than being esoteric, this a really important find because Origen is a pivotal Christian thinker because he contributed to the building of our witness to Christ.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The manuscripts of the homilies were found in the Bavarian State Library by Marina Molin Pradel while she was doing some other work. The texts were verified by Lorenzo Perrone of the University of Bologna. These homilies are important since Origen&#8217;s work as been until now unknown in Greek.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The 3rd century Origen was condemned by the <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_Council_of_Constantinople\" title=\"First Council of Constantinople\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Ecumenical Council of Constantinople<\/a> in 553.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Zenit news has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenit.org\/article-34983?l=english\">an article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If you are interested in Origen you may be interested in what Pope Benedict XVI said about this theologian in 2007 when he dedicated two of his catechesis sessions on him.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top:10px;height:15px\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=7cca3455-4d0a-41f5-a8e3-000cb1ad10c1\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" style=\"border:none;float:right\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday there was a very brief article in the newspaper from the AP about the discovery of homilies from Origen (AD 185-253\/4) Church father (theologian) from Alexandria, Egypt. Later I noticed a friend on Facebook telling us a little more of the discovery the homilies on the Psalms. Few of his texts are extant. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/06\/origen-attracts-new-interest-w\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Origen attracts new interest with discovery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[1942,2970],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}