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Book SynopsisThe most prominent Christian theologian and exegete of the third century, Origen was also an influential teacher. In the famed Thanksgiving Address, one of his students delivered an emotionally charged account of his tutelage in Roman Palestine. This analysis of the text sheds new light on higher education in the early Church.
Trade Review"Satran’s book is laudable for its important contribution to studies of late antique education and rhetoric, to scholarship on Origen and Gregory and, one would like to hope, to contemporary discussions on the nature of education and the vital role of teachers as intellectual and moral guides to a truly liberating way of life." * Journal of Ecclesiastical History *
"[L]ocates [value] in contemporary Origen literature as a helpful resource for those who want to delve deeper into a learned, loving ancient tribute . . ." * Reading Religion *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Providence, Eros, and Constraint
2. Dialectic and the Training of the Mind
3. Moral Formation and the Path to Scripture
4. Paradise and the Cave
5. Paideia, Loss, and Prospect
Notes
Bibliography
Index
