Logic and Argumentation in Origen
by Robert Somos
The activity of Origen of Alexandria (185-253), one of the most prolific early Christian scholars, encompassed different branches of theology. His enormous exegetical achievement is grounded on solid philological and hermeneutical foundations. With his De principiis, the Alexandrian thinker was the creator of systematic theology, and in his Contra Celsum, he composed the most intellectual piece of Greek patristic apology. A common element of these different segments of activity is that they are based on scientific and logical principles and were developed with methodological consciousness. The main topic of this book is what Origen said in his writings about logic, rationality in its broadest sense, dialectic, and theory of science, and what the characteristics of his strategy of argumentation are.
- By (author) Robert Somos
"Origen scholars will appreciate Somoss detailed study, which substantially contributes to the picture of Origen as a serious scholar who mastered the tools of his trade to articulate his striking theological vision logically and lucidly (both mediations of the divine Logos into human logos) to those inside and outside the church." --Mark S.M. Scott, Thorneloe University at Laurentian, Review of Biblical Literature 6.15.17
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