Origen

Origen was born to Christian parents in Alexandria, Egypt, around 185. When he was about seventeen his father, Leonides, was beheaded in a persecution, and Origen supported his family by teaching. He was soon put in charge of instructing new converts and became famous for his learning and simple way of life. He studied Greek philosophy to explain the faith to educated people and learned Hebrew to study the Old Testament. He wrote commentaries on most books of the Bible, the Hexapla, which set Hebrew and Greek versions of the Old Testament side by side, and On First Principles. Around 231 he settled in Caesarea in Palestine and opened a school. There, about 248, he wrote Against Celsus, a reply to a pagan attack on Christianity. In the persecution under Emperor Decius in 250 he was imprisoned and tortured but did not deny his faith. He died a few years later, probably at Tyre. Some of his speculative ideas were later condemned, but his biblical scholarship deeply influenced later Christian thinkers.

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Faith: Christian exegete and theologian whose work laid foundations for philosophical theology, though he was later considered a heretic. Source: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy