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The Resurrection as a historical event

...t human. Origen captures this concept well in his book Contra Celsus; “After his resurrection, Christ existed in an intermediate state, as it were. For it was somewhere between the physicalness of the body He had before his sufferings and the appearance of a soul uncovered by such a body. It was for this reason that … Jesus came and stood in [the disciples] midst, even though the doors were shut.” – Origen, Contra Celsus, Book II, ch.62   So what is the resurrection? It is a mystery of something which is deeply spiritual, yet also joined in the flesh of renewed bodies. It is hope for our future and peace over death, and encouragement for those...

The Relationship Between Jesus and Sophia

...same.– Origen, De Principiis, 1.2.1 And Solomon, David’s son and successor, presenting the same thought by a different name, instead of the ‘Word’ called Him Wisdom, making the following statement as in her person…– Eusebius of Caesarea, Preparation of the Gospel — Part 2 But if this same Wisdom is the Word of God, in the capacity of Wisdom, and (as being He) without whom nothing was made, just as also (nothing) was set in order without Wisdom, how can it be that anything, except the Father, should be older, and on this account indeed nobler, than the Son of God, the only-begotten and first-begotten Word?– Tertullian, Against Hermogenes, c...

Did the Early Church invent the Trinity?

....D. 216. Origen (c. 225) For we do not hold that which the heretics imagine: that some part of the being of God was converted into the Son, or that the Son was procreated by the Father from non-existent substances, that is, from a being outside himself, so that there was a time when he [the Son] did not exist — The Fundamental Doctrines 4:4:1, A.D. 225. For it is the Trinity alone which exceeds every sense in which not only temporal but even eternal may be understood. It is all other things, indeed, which are outside the Trinity, which are to be measured by time and ages — The Fundamental Doctrines 4:4:1, A.D. 225. The Father generates an uncrea...