The Charismatic Intellectual
Origen's Understanding of Religious Leadership
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3189596 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph W Trigg (Rice University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-19 |
| Publication date | 1981-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Church History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3166476 |
| OpenAlex | W1972440093 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 3 |
Origen's vocabulary is quite definitely that of an intellectual; it owes little to daily life or to the vernacular of his time.... He seems ...to manufacture his own language, often hermetic, abstract, or difficult to understand, the language of a man concerned above all with ideas, somewhat cut off from the real world, and constitutionally separated from concrete realities. Are we wrong in attaching a particular significance to the fact, so characteristic of his passionate idealism as well as of his introversion, that he made himself a eunuch
Aesthetics · Art · Charisma · Epistemology · Idealism · Linguistics · Literature · Reflexive pronoun · Theology · Vernacular · Vocabulary · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,45 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2023 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |