Origen (c.185–253) was lauded as “the greatest teacher in the Church, after the Apostles,” by Didymus the Blind (d. 398). But he was also condemned as the “hydra of all heresies” by Theophilus of Alexandria (d. 412). The emperor Justinian I (d. 565) commanded that Origen’s writings should be burned as heretical, and Pope Vigilius … Continue reading Origen and the Problem of Posthumous Condemnation