Origen | Martyria

Studia Humanitatis No. I (XIX) / 2025 Patristic views on the relationship between humans and animals Professor, PhD Miltiade Vantzos

This article analyses the patristic perspective on the relationship between humans and animals, beginning with Celsus’s critique of the Christian teaching on human dominion over creation and continuing with the responses of Origen, Saint Basil the Great, Saint John Chrysostom, Saint Gregory of Nyssa and Theodoret of Cyrus, who establish a dominion based on reason, responsibility and cooperation, not on violence.

Studia Humanitatis No. I (XIX) / 2025 The Spread of Christianity among the Georgians in the 1st–3rd Centuries and the Organisation of the First Churches of that Period (Part I) Rev. Prof. Dr. Aleksi Kshutashvili

The study examines the spread of Christianity amongst the Georgians in the 1st–3rd centuries, beginning with a delineation of the geographical area inhabited by the Georgian peoples – the Iberians, Meshi, Laz and Svan – in Iberia, Cappadocia and Pontus. Evidence is drawn from Eusebius of Caesarea, Origen, Epiphanius of Constantinople and Georgian sources such as the History of Kartli, attesting to the missionary activity of the Holy Apostles Andrew, Peter and Matthias amongst the Georgians.

Studia Theologica No. II (XVI) / 2023 The ecclesiological nature of the Holy Sacrament of Matrimony Associate Professor Dr Nicolae Xionis

The Holy Sacrament of Marriage is analysed from an Orthodox theological perspective as an icon of Christ’s union with the Church, possessing an ontological and ecclesiological character, not merely a moral or social one. Drawing on the Holy Fathers — John Chrysostom, Athanasius the Great, Nicholas Cabasilas and Gregory of Nyssa — the article interprets the themes of creation, divorce, submission and idolatry in the light of the communion between God and humankind.

Studia Theologica No. I (XI) / 2021 The lifting up of my hands, the evening sacrifice (ἔπαρσις τῶν χειρῶν μου θυσία ἑσπερινή) Rev. Dr. Ștefan Zară

Origen’s treatise On Prayer (chapters XXXI–XXXII) examines the formal aspects of Christian prayer: the appropriate place for prayer (at home or in church), the time (unceasing prayer and the three daily times), bodily posture (outstretched hands, eyes raised, kneeling) and facing the East, all of which are seen as outward expressions of the supplicant’s inner spiritual state.

Studia Theologica No. I (X) / 2020 On gratitude (εὐχαριστία) towards God, in Origen’s treatise *On Prayer* (Περὶ Εὐχῆς) Rev. Dr. Ștefan Zară

Origen’s treatise On Prayer (Περὶ Εὐχῆς), written around 234–235 in Caesarea in Palestine at the request of Ambrose and Tatiana, is analysed with a focus on the theology of εὐχαριστίας, the prayer of thanksgiving, which Origen regards as the highest form of prayer, grounded in the recognition of God’s gifts and in the loving relationship between the Creator and humankind.

Studia Theologica No. I (VIII) / 2019 Christ the Saviour, the fullness of goodness in the writings of Origen Rev. Dr. Ștefan Zară

The goodness of God as an essential attribute of the divine-human Person of the Saviour Jesus Christ is analysed through the lens of the theology of Origen, the great Alexandrian patristic writer. The article examines how Origen integrates this soteriological theme into a rich patristic tradition, demonstrating that Christ is the fullness of all goodness, and that man shares in this goodness through grace, repentance and life in the Holy Spirit.

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