In the unfolding drama of Trinitarian theology, Origen of Alexandria emerges not merely as a speculative thinker of antiquity but as an architect of what is systematic theology. Despite later ecclesiastical condemnations and theological ambiguities, his conceptual scaffolding undergirded the Nicene synthesis and how it is that we profess our faith in God, “light from light, splendor from splendor; so is the Son from the Father...”
This conference outlines how Origen’s doctrine of the eternal generation of the Son, his Logos-Christology, and his efforts to articulate divine plurality within divine unity laid essential groundwork for the doctrinal contours formalized at the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea (325 CE).
Fr. Bernard Poggi is the Rector of the Latin Patriarchate in Beit Jala, a position he has held since August of 2021. He is a graduate of the University of San Francisco and has received a Masters of Arts in Theology as well as a Licentiate in Dogmatic Theology from the Jesuit School of Theology at the University of Santa Clara in the U.S. He also teaches Religious Studies at Bethlehem University as well as serving as the Liaison to the Mission of the Diaspora in the U.S.