Pioneering Theologian: Origen

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

When divorced from Scripture, even well-meaning efforts to understand the world will fall short. Today, W. Robert Godfrey considers some of the speculative theology of Origen.

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0:00.0	Today, I'm renewing your mind.
0:01.6	We meet a pioneering theologian in the second century named
0:05.6	origin.
0:06.4	What we see in origins time and after that is already beginning to
0:10.8	emerge clearly in the second century is this notion that
0:14.4	really spiritual Christians will more and more cut themselves
0:18.3	off from connections to this life and all of its values.
0:23.3	We welcome you to the Thursday edition of renewing your mind.
0:32.3	I'm Lee Webb.
0:33.3	Thank you for being with us.
0:34.9	Origin was a product of his time and picked up some errors from the
0:38.5	philosophical thinkers around him.
0:40.5	Yet some of his work was groundbreaking and we can see the impact of it on the church
0:45.5	even today.
0:46.5	Let's learn more about origin as we continue Dr. W. Robert Gottfried series,
0:51.7	a survey of church history.
0:56.5	Well, it's great to return to our study of the ancient church and some of the
1:00.9	great theologians of the ancient church period that we've been looking at
1:04.1	together.
1:05.1	And I want to come back to origin for a minute are pioneering theologian
1:09.5	who earnestly desire to use his great intellectual gifts in the service of the
1:13.5	church
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