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Origen of Alexandria has been the subject of a revolution in scholarship since the middle of the previous century. From shifting landscapes in our understanding of his doctrinal positions and a broader and deeper awareness of the depths of his biblical interpretation, to an appreciation of his influence throughout the history of ideas, especially in the case of human freedom, scholars are discovering Origen ever anew. As it so happens, scholars now have access to a significant new source from which to scrutinize Origen and his thought. While cataloguing manuscripts at a library in Munich in April 2012, Marina Molin Pradel suspected that a collection of Greek homilies on the Psalms was the work of Origen. After collaborating with Lorenzo Perrone and Italian scholars, they determined that these homilies with no previous authorial attribution, were indeed the homilies of Origen.

The reader of these homilies will be struck by the academic rigour of the exegesis, frequently including points of grammar and philosophical acumen. One aspect of Origen’s teaching, however, was prominent in both his grammatical and philosophical discourses, namely, purity of heart. Consistent with Origen’s movement from the text to the Divine Logos speaking in the text, Origen’s discourses on purity of heart in these homilies reveal a teacher attempting to guide his audience into an intimate encounter with the Logos, who effects his own pedagogy in the heart of the human subject. In this book, I will trace this movement, beginning with Origen’s pedagogical aims in his scholarly commentaries. Then I will outline the process of reading with a grammarian, and then to examine the ways in which Origen clarified problems in scripture with lessons in philosophy, and then finish with a reflection on the cultivation of the Christian reader in purity of heart. In light of these homilies, the traditional dichotomy between Origen’s learned commentaries and his homilies breaks down and requires a re-assessment.

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Pedagogy of the Heart

Grammar, Philosophy, and the Christian Reader in Origen’s Greek Homilies on the Psalms

Series: Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements, Volume: 190

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004731240

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 12 May 2025

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