Erasmus’s Life of Origen: A New Annotated Translation of the Prefaces to Erasmus of Rotterdam’s Edition of Origen’s Writings (1536)

273 Pages·2016·1.35 MB·English

by  Thomas P Scheck

Erasmus’s
LIFE of ORIGEN

Erasmus’s
of
LIFE ORIGEN
A New Annotated Translation of
the Prefaces to Erasmus of Rotterdam’s
Edition of Origen’s Writings (1536)
TranslaTEd wiTh commEnTary by
THOMAS P. SCHECK
Foreword by Richard L. DeMolen
The Catholic University of America Press
Washington, D.C.
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isbn 978-0-8132-2801-3
To Fr. David Robinson, SJ, of Ave Maria University

CONTENTS
Abbreviations ix
Foreword by Richard L. DeMolen xi
Author’s Preface xv
Introduction xxix
1. Erasmus’s Program for Theological Renewal 1
2. Introduction to Origen 43
3. Origen’s Legacy in the Catholic Exegetical Tradition 71
4. Erasmus’s Reception of Origen 99
5. Erasmus’s Prefaces 138
Appendix: Sixteenth-Century Assessments of Erasmus 187
Selected Bibliography 217
Index 227

ABBREVIATIONS
ACW Ancient Christian Writers
ANF Ante-Nicene Fathers
ASD Opera omnia Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami
CE Contemporaries of Erasmus
CSEL Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum
CT Concilium Tridentinum, Diariorum, Actorum, Epistularum, Trac-
tatuum nova collectio
CW The Complete Works of St. Thomas More
CWE Collected Works of Erasmus
DCB A Dictionary of Christian Biography
DS Compendium of Creeds, Definitions, and Declarations on Matters of
Faith and Morals (Denzinger)
EEC Encyclopedia of the Early Church
FOTC Fathers of the Church
GCS Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten drei Jahrhun-
derte
HE Historia Ecclesiastica (Eusebius)
JECS Journal of Early Christian Studies
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