An edition of Homilies on Luke (1996)

Homilies on Luke

and, Fragments on Luke

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An edition of Homilies on Luke (1996)

Homilies on Luke

and, Fragments on Luke

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Thirty-nine of Origen's homilies on the Gospel of Luke survive in Jerome's Latin translation. Origen preached them in Caesarea, perhaps around 234 or 240, to a congregation of catechumens and faithful. Most of the homilies are short; on average, they treat about six verses of the Gospel and would have lasted between eight and twelve minutes. The first thirty-three homilies treat chapters one through four of Luke's Gospel; the remaining six treat passages from the tenth to the twentieth chapters.

Henri de Lubac formulated the important principle, "Observe Origen at work," and Origen's writings on Luke's Gospel are an intriguing place to do that. Origen, the champion of spiritual interpretation, regularly begins with a painfully literal reading of the text. His first unit of understanding is the word, and often the key that unlocks the meaning of a word in the Bible for him is the use of that same word elsewhere in Scripture.

Origen assumed that each word had a meaning that is both profound and relevant to the reader - for the Holy Spirit is never trite and what the Holy Spirit says must always touch the hearer. This volume, the first English translation of the extant homilies and of fragments from the commentary on Luke, is an important addition to the growing body of Origen's work now available in English.

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English
Pages
246

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Homilies on Luke: and, Fragments on Luke
1996, Catholic University of America Press
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Edition Notes

Bibliogr.

4

Published in
Washington, DC
Series
The Fathers of the Church, a new translation -- v. 94
Other Titles
Fragments on Luke

Classifications

Library of Congress
BR'60'F3'O686'1996, BR60.F3 O686 1996, BS2595 O686 1996, BS2595

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxix, 246 p
Number of pages
246

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL21193748M
Internet Archive
homiliesonlukefr0000orig
ISBN 10
0813200946
LCCN
95039207
OCLC/WorldCat
33407746
Library Thing
1645967
Goodreads
1753629

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