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Sin in Origen’s Commentary on Romans

Stephen Bagby

Sin in Origen’s Commentary on Romans examines Origen as a critical third century voice seeking to articulate a cogent doctrine of sin, and presents his magisterial Commentary on Romans as a unique window to understanding his mature thought on the subject. It argues that Origen’s teaching on original and volitional sin demonstrates continuity with and divergence from the prevailing theological tradition. It offers a substantial, revisionist account of the thought of one of the most important thinkers in early Christianity and takes up important anthropological and soteriological questions in Origen, as presented in a key, but often neglected text, in Origen’s corpus of biblical commentary.

Lexington Books / Fortress Academic

Pages: 202 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-9787-0108-3 • Hardback • April 2018 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

978-1-9787-0109-0 • eBook • April 2018 • $105.00 • (£77.00)

Subjects: Religion / Christianity / History, Religion / Christianity / General

Sin in Origen’s Commentary on Romans

Hardback

eBook

Summary

Sin in Origen’s Commentary on Romans examines Origen as a critical third century voice seeking to articulate a cogent doctrine of sin, and presents his magisterial Commentary on Romans as a unique window to understanding his mature thought on the subject. It argues that Origen’s teaching on original and volitional sin demonstrates continuity with and divergence from the prevailing theological tradition. It offers a substantial, revisionist account of the thought of one of the most important thinkers in early Christianity and takes up important anthropological and soteriological questions in Origen, as presented in a key, but often neglected text, in Origen’s corpus of biblical commentary.

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Lexington Books / Fortress Academic

Pages: 202 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-9787-0108-3 • Hardback • April 2018 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

978-1-9787-0109-0 • eBook • April 2018 • $105.00 • (£77.00)

Subjects: Religion / Christianity / History, Religion / Christianity / General

Author

Stephen Bagby teaches humanities at The Covenant School in Dallas.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

Introduction
Chapter 1: Sin in the Second and Third Centuries
Chapter 2: Original Sin
Chapter 3: Parameters of Volitional Sin
Chapter 4: Practice of Volitional Sin

Conclusion
Bibliography

Sin in Origen’s Commentary on Romans

Stephen Bagby

Sin in Origen’s Commentary on Romans

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