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Homilies on Luke ; Fragments on Luke

Author: Origen.; Joseph T Lienhard
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©1996.
Series: Fathers of the church, v. 94.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Thirty-nine of Origen's homilies on the Gospel of Luke survive in Jerome's Latin translation. Origen preached them in Caesarea, perhaps around 234 or 240, to a congregation of catechumens and faithful. Most of the homilies are short; on average, they treat about six verses of the Gospel and would have lasted between eight and twelve minutes. The first thirty-three homilies treat chapters one through four of Luke's
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Genre/Form: Sermons Early works to 1800
Early works to 1800
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Origen.; Joseph T Lienhard
ISBN: 0813200946 9780813200941
OCLC Number: 33407746
Description: xxxix, 246 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Fragments on Luke / Origen.
Series Title: Fathers of the church, v. 94.
Other Titles: Fragments on Luke.
Homilies on Luke.
Homilies on Luke ; Fragments on Luke
Responsibility: Origen ; translated by Joseph T. Lienhard.
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Abstract:

Thirty-nine of Origen's homilies on the Gospel of Luke survive in Jerome's Latin translation. Origen preached them in Caesarea, perhaps around 234 or 240, to a congregation of catechumens and faithful. Most of the homilies are short; on average, they treat about six verses of the Gospel and would have lasted between eight and twelve minutes. The first thirty-three homilies treat chapters one through four of Luke's Gospel; the remaining six treat passages from the tenth to the twentieth chapters.

Henri de Lubac formulated the important principle, "Observe Origen at work," and Origen's writings on Luke's Gospel are an intriguing place to do that. Origen, the champion of spiritual interpretation, regularly begins with a painfully literal reading of the text. His first unit of understanding is the word, and often the key that unlocks the meaning of a word in the Bible for him is the use of that same word elsewhere in Scripture.

Origen assumed that each word had a meaning that is both profound and relevant to the reader - for the Holy Spirit is never trite and what the Holy Spirit says must always touch the hearer. This volume, the first English translation of the extant homilies and of fragments from the commentary on Luke, is an important addition to the growing body of Origen's work now available in English.

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