Homilies on Genesis and Exodus

by Origen

Origen, son of the martyr Leonides, oldest in a family of seven children was born probably at Alexandria 184/85 and died probably in Tyre 253/54 after imprisonment and torture during the Decian persecution. Surnamed ""man of steel"" Origen was an outstanding theologian of the early Greek-speaking Church, a man of the virtue and a genius with a prodigious capacity for work, an excellent teacher to whose lectures students flocked ""and did not give...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081321324X
• ISBN13: 9780813213248
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.2"