Tag: Origen

  • Dan

    A continual life of prayer

    What is it to “pray without ceasing”? (1 Thess. 5:17) Hans Urs von Balthasar in his book Engagement with God gives us this thought from Origen:

  • Dan

    Origen and the power of the cross

    Boyd draws heavily on Origen when setting up his proposal for what he calls the Cruciform Hermeneutic. Origen doesn’t explain away the violent passages of the Old Testament. He has a way of looking at them that brings us to the “lens” of the cross.