Thomas P. Scheck

Below is just a collection of notes I made while reading this book.

Origen’s commentary on Romans is neglected by current scholarship as essential to the West. Figures from St. Jerome to Pelagius to the reformation participants Luther and Melanchthon (who vehemently opposed Origen’s doctrine of justification. ) all received Origen as a Pauline exegete in one way or another. Origen opposed the doctrine of natures, that he attributed to the Marcion school. (The idea that there is a group of souls that would always be saved and a group of souls who would always be damned.) Origen constantly describes Christ’s death in the language of penal satisfaction. Origen while decidedly Catholic in terms of justification still benefits all traditions with his exegetical work.… (altro)