The quarrel over Origen between two old friends: Rufinus's prefaces and his Apology to Anastasius and Apronianus, Jerome's three books against Rufinus, and Rufinus's Commentary on the Apostles' Creed, the earliest full explanation of the creed. Modern English from the Post-Nicene Fathers translation.
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Contents
The Apology of Rufinus, Book 1
1Introduction to Rufinus’s Apology2Summary of the Argument3Bearing Insults as Christ Did4Why the Charges Must Be Answered5I Praised Him, and He Wounded Me6The Faith of My Baptism7A Further Proof of My Faith in the Resurrection8The Resurrection Body Is a Spiritual Body9The Women Jerome Mocks10The Middle Path of the Church’s Faith11My Faith Fully Stated12The Charge About Origen’s Teaching13How the Translation Came About14My Prefaces and My Faith15The Preface to Pamphilus’s Apology16The Preface to On First Principles17The Tampering with Origen’s Books18The Difficulties of Translation19Origen on Whether the Son Sees the Father20The Difference Between Seeing and Knowing21The Translation Tampered With by Eusebius of Cremona22An Honest Man Would Have Come to Me23Jerome Translated the Same Way I Did24Jerome Points to His Commentary on Ephesians25Jerome Has Not Really Changed His Mind About Origen26Women Turned into Men and Bodies into Souls27Jerome Explains the Foundation of the World as a Casting Down28Jerome Gives His Own Views as Another’s29Jerome Teaches the Fall of Souls into Bodies30Predestination31The “Other” Is Jerome Himself32Hopers and Fore-Hopers33Jerome Has Confessed These Views as His Own34Jerome Has Confessed These Views as His Own, Continued35Jerome’s Views Shown Again to Be Origen’s36Jerome’s Views Shown Again to Be Origen’s, Continued37Jerome’s Chosen Commentary Condemns Him38Principalities and Powers39Principalities and Powers, Continued40Jerome’s Complaint of New Teachings Turned Back on Him41The Origin of Men, Angels, and Heavenly Bodies42Men and Angels Made One Flock43The Body as a Prison44All Things Restored to One Body45All Creatures, Even the Fallen Angel, Restored46The Arrogance of Jerome’s Teaching47If Origen Is Not Pardoned, Neither Is Jerome