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Handout #47 |
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The gospel proclaimed to all social groups |
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Origen see chapter 3. Origen, who came from Alexandria, traveled a good
deal in the empire and throughout the East. He, himself, proclaimed the
gospel, and his De Principiis, on First Principles, is the earliest manual
of dogmatic theology (first half of the third century).
If we observe how powerful the gospel has become in a very few years, despite the persecution and the torture, the death and the confiscation, despite the small number of preachers, the word has been proclaimed throughout the earth. Greeks and barbarians, wise and foolish, have joined the religion of Jesus. We cannot doubt that this goes beyond human powers, for Jesus taught with authority and the persuasion necessary for the word to be established. Origen, De principiis iv 1,2.. |
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