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Tertullian · 213 · Treatise
For readers working on martyrdom and its theology under persecution; scriptural throughout, not an introduction.
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Tertullian · 213 · Treatise
For students of Montanism and early teaching on remarriage; the severest of three statements of the case, not a first choice.
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Tertullian · 217 · Treatise
For students of church discipline and the Montanist split; Tertullian at his most severe, not a place to begin.
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Hippolytus of Rome · 220–230 · Treatise
The Chronicon stands as one of the earliest Christian attempts to establish a comprehensive chronology of world history from creation to the author's present day in the early third century. Hippolytus of…
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Origen of Alexandria · 220–230 · Treatise
For students of theology and of how Christian doctrine was first set out as a system; demanding, and to be read knowing that parts were later condemned.
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Hippolytus of Rome · 222–235 · Treatise
The Refutatio omnium haeresium stands as one of the most comprehensive early Christian responses to Gnostic and other heterodox movements that flourished in the second and third centuries. Written by Hippolytus of…
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Origen of Alexandria · 226–232 · Commentary
For serious students of John's Gospel and of early biblical interpretation; vast, technical, and only partly in English.
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Origen of Alexandria · 230–245 · Other
For textual scholars of the Greek and Hebrew Old Testament; a reference work, not a book to read.
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Origen of Alexandria · 233–244 · Sermon
For readers of Luke and of early preaching on the birth of Christ; Jerome's Latin only here.
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Origen of Alexandria · 233–234 · Treatise
For anyone who prays; the earliest Christian treatise on prayer and on the Lord's Prayer, and the most accessible of his major works.
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Origen of Alexandria · 235 · Treatise
For readers interested in early Christian martyrdom and courage under persecution; short, but with no public-domain English translation.
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Letter to Gregory Epistula ad Gregorium Thaumaturgum
Origen of Alexandria · 235–240 · Other
For any reader: a short, warm letter on how a student should use pagan learning in the service of Scripture.
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Origen of Alexandria · 238–244 · Sermon
For students of early Christian preaching and of reading the Old Testament spiritually; there is no public-domain English translation, so it is reachable here only in Latin (and Greek where it survives).
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Origen of Alexandria · 238–244 · Sermon
For students of early Christian preaching and of reading the Old Testament spiritually; there is no public-domain English translation, so it is reachable here only in Latin (and Greek where it survives).
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Origen of Alexandria · 238–244 · Sermon
For students of early Christian preaching and of reading the Old Testament spiritually; there is no public-domain English translation, so it is reachable here only in Latin (and Greek where it survives).
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Origen of Alexandria · 238–244 · Sermon
For students of early Christian preaching and of reading the Old Testament spiritually; there is no public-domain English translation, so it is reachable here only in Latin (and Greek where it survives).
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Origen of Alexandria · 238–244 · Sermon
For students of early Christian preaching and of reading the Old Testament spiritually; there is no public-domain English translation, so it is reachable here only in Latin (and Greek where it survives).
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Origen of Alexandria · 238–244 · Sermon
For students of early Christian preaching and of reading the Old Testament spiritually; there is no public-domain English translation, so it is reachable here only in Latin (and Greek where it survives).
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Origen of Alexandria · 240–245 · Commentary
For readers of the mystical tradition: the founding Christian reading of the Song of Songs; Latin only here.
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Origen of Alexandria · 240–245 · Sermon
For students of early Christian preaching and of reading the Old Testament spiritually; there is no public-domain English translation, so it is reachable here only in Latin (and Greek where it survives).
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Origen of Alexandria · 240–245 · Sermon
For students of early Christian preaching: among the few homilies surviving in his own Greek; no public-domain English translation.
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Origen of Alexandria · 240–250 · Other
For readers interested in the Old Testament canon and early textual criticism; a short, sharp exchange of letters.
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Origen of Alexandria · 243–246 · Commentary
For students of Paul and of early readings of grace and free will; Latin only here.
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Origen of Alexandria · 244–249 · Commentary
For students of Matthew and of early exegesis; only some books survive in Greek and fewer are in English.
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