Fr. John Behr is the Regius Professor of Humanity at the University of Aberdeen. He has a long and prestigious career in early Christian theology and is one of the leading scholars on the Patristics. He has done many translations of the early church fathers. In this conversation we specifically talk about Origen. We mention Karl Barth, Jaroslav Peliko, Metropolitan John Zizioulas, Diodorus of Tarsus, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Gregory of Nyssa, Panayiotis Tzamalikos, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus of Lyon, and more.

Podcast version of this video: https://anchor.fm/transfiguredsam/ep...

Fr. Behr's translation of "On First Principles": https://www.amazon.com/OrigenFirstP...

Irenaeus of Lyons: https://www.amazon.com/IrenaeusLyons...

My first episode on Origen:    • Origen of Alexandria  Part 1 On Fir...  

00:00:00 Introduction
00:06:30 Behr's work on Origen
00:18:10 On First Principles background
00:24:30 Origen on the Trinity
00:34:20 Apocalypse, Unveiling, Logos and Wisdom
00:48:50 Souls, Rational Beings, and God's Fire
01:00:00 Incarnation and Apocalypse
01:12:00 Causation and Temporality
01:18:45 Concluding Remarks