Origen by Rowan A Greer

Origen by Rowan A Greer

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Walter H. Greer III is Rowan Allen Greer III. Yale University Divinity School's Gray Professor of Anglican Studies and Fellow of Jonathan Edwards College. Shattered Lights and Mended Lives: Theology and Common Life in the Early Church; Theodore of Mopsuestua: Exegete and Theologian; The Captain of Our Salvation: A Study in the Patristic Exegesis of Hebrews; The Sermon on the Mount; and Origen: An Exhortation to Martyrdom, Prayer, and Selected Writings are just a few of his earlier works.

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ISBN 13	9780809121984
ISBN 10	0809121980
Title	Origen
Author	Rowan A Greer
Series	Classics Of Western Spirituality Ser
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Paulist Press International,U.S.
Year published	1979-01-01
Number of pages	320
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