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Beyond our understanding

Origen is generally considered the greatest theologian and biblical scholar of the early Eastern church. He was probably born in Egypt, and was taught by Clement of Alexandria. Origen’s literary productivity was enormous. His writings helped to create a Christian theology that blended biblical and philosophical study.

Of all the marvellous and splendid things about the Son of

God there is one that utterly transcends the limits of human

wonder and is beyond the capacity of our weak mortal

intelligence to think of or understand, namely, how this mighty

power of the divine majesty, the very Word of the Father, and

the very Wisdom of God, in which were created ‘all things visible

and invisible’, can be believed to have existed within the

compass of that man who appeared in Judaea; yes, and how the

wisdom of God can have entered into a woman’s womb and

been born as a child and uttered noises like those of crying

children; and further, how it was that he was troubled, as we are

told, in the hour of death, as he himself confesses when he says,

‘My soul is sorrowful even unto death’; and how at the last he

was led to that death which is considered by men to be the most

shameful of all – even though on the third day he rose again.

Origen (c. 185–254)