In the Image of Origen: Eros, Virtue, and Constraint in the Early Christian Academy (Transformation of the Classical Heritage): 58 - Hardcover

Satran, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520291239 ISBN 13: 9780520291232

Publisher: University of California Press, 2018

Synopsis

The most prominent Christian theologian and exegete of the third century, Origen was also an influential teacher. In the famed Thanksgiving Address, one of his students—traditionally thought to be Gregory Thaumaturgus, later bishop of Cappadocia—delivered an emotionally charged account of his tutelage under Origen in Roman Palestine. Although it is one of the few personal narratives by a Christian author to have survived from the period, the Address is more often cited than read closely. But as David Satran demonstrates, this short work has much to teach us today. At its center stands the question of moral formation, anchored by the image of Origen himself, and Satran’s careful analysis of the text sheds new light on higher education in the early church as well as the intimate relationship between master and disciple.

 

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About the Author

David Satran is the Leeds Senior Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

From the Back Cover

"This book is the first that I know of to do proper justice to the Address of Thanksgiving to Origen by Gregory Thaumaturgus, a work easy to ignore or underestimate because of its elaborate rhetorical format. Satran gives it a proper in-depth treatment. The result is an admirable study of this neglected work, drawing out all its varied riches in a very readable mode."--John Dillon, Regius Professor Emeritus of Greek, Trinity College, Dublin

From the Inside Flap

"This book is the first that I know of to do proper justice to the Address of Thanksgiving to Origen by Gregory Thaumaturgus, a work easy to ignore or underestimate because of its elaborate rhetorical format. Satran gives it a proper in-depth treatment. The result is an admirable study of this neglected work, drawing out all its varied riches in a very readable mode."—John Dillon, Regius Professor Emeritus of Greek, Trinity College, Dublin

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520291239
• ISBN 13: 9780520291232
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224