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Henry Chadwick
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Regius Professor Emeritus of Divinity, University of Cambridge; Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1987–93. Author of The Early Church and others.
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Origen was the most important theologian and biblical scholar of the early Greek church. His greatest work is the Hexapla, which is a synopsis of six versions of the Old Testament. Origen was born of pagan parents, according to the Neoplatonist philosopher Porphyry, but of Christian parents,…
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