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On First Principles

Origen · c. 220–230 AD

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Ante-Nicene

The first systematic theology in Christianity, addressing God, creation, free will, and scriptural interpretation.

Table of Contents

1Book I1On God2On Christ3On the Holy Spirit4On Defection, or Falling Away5On Rational Natures6On the End or Consummation7On Incorporeal and Corporeal Beings8On the Angels9Fragment from the First Book of the de Principiis10Another Fragment from the Same2Book II1On the World2On the Perpetuity of Bodily Nature3On the Beginning of the World, and Its Causes4The God of the Law and the Prophets, and the Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ, is the Same God5On Justice and Goodness6On the Incarnation of Christ7On the Holy Spirit8On the Soul (Anima)9On the World and the Movements of Rational Creatures, Whether Good or Bad; And on the Causes of Them10On the Resurrection, and the Judgment, the Fire of Hell, and Punishments11On Counter Promises3Book III1On the Freedom of the Will2On the Freedom of the Will, With an Explanation and Interpretation of Those Statements of Scripture Which Appear to Nullify It3On the Opposing Powers4On Threefold Wisdom5On Human Temptations6That the World Took Its Beginning in Time7On the End of the World8That the Scriptures are Divinely Inspired9Many, not understanding the Scriptures in a spir­itual sense, but incorrectly, have fallen into heresies.10On the Inspiration of Holy Scripture, and How the Same is to be Read and Understood, and What is the Reason of the Uncertainty in it; and of the Impossibility or Irrationality of Certain Things in it, Taken According to the Letter11Summary (of Doctrine) Regarding the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and the Other Topics Discussed in the Preceding Pages.