- Docente: Lorenzo Perrone
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-FIL-LET/06
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (cod. 0973)
Learning outcomes
Knowledge of major authors, themes and methods for the study of Early Christian Literature. Critical examination of sources and literary and historical interpretation.
Course contents
Monographic course: «Origen, or on the first things: introduction
to The Principles (Perì archôn)
Origen's dogmatic treatise On Principles is a
masterpiece of early Christian thought. The course will deal with
different aspects of this controversial writing: literary genre;
the Greek and Latin text; the doctrinal issues; the interpretation
of the Bible.
Office hours
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