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follower of Origen of Alexandria, earlyChristian scholar andtheologian .
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Many of the so-called Origenist monks were among his best friends; some of them he appointed to ecclesiastical offices and dignities: for example, he named Isidore archpresbyter and patriarchal oeconomos, and raised others to the episcopate.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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The most important statement of More's theological position his An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness appeared in 1664, and propounds, in opposition to Calvinist pessimistic voluntarism, a moral, rational providentialism in which he vindicates the goodness and justice of God by invoking the Origenist doctrine of the pre-existence of the soul.
The Cambridge Platonists Hutton, Sarah 2007
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This approach is to be found in the Origenist and Philonic belief in the mystery of the
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANGUS FLETCHER 1968
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Witness and Weight of certain Anti-Origenist Councils.
Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux
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He wrote a treatise against the Origenist monks, which Montfaucon has published in his Bibl.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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He reproached the monks and bishops of his time with accepting the Origenist errors.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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His character is most clearly shown by the Origenist controversies, which demonstrated his disinterested zeal but also his quickness to suspect heresy, a good faith which was easily taken advantage of by the intriguing, and an ardour of conviction which caused him to forget the rules of canon law and to commit real abuses of power.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Platonist and Origenist error concerning its intrinsically purgatorial character.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Vigilius, tell the same story of an Origenist intrigue.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Origenist theory of universal salvation by the final restoration of all creatures, and he is followed in this by Farrar Lobstein,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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