Origen and the Life of the Stars
Alan Scott

Publisher, Clarendon Paperbacks, 1994
Paperback, pp.189

Condition, Used – Good.

In the third century AD Origen included Hellenistic theories on the life and nature of the stars in his cosmology. This marked an interesting episode in the history of the idea, but it also had important implications for early Christian theology. Although he was condemned as heretical for these (and other) speculations, he was successful in incorporating traditional philosophical theories about the stars into a biblical theology.