The Challenges of Editing Origen's De principiis

Join us for a presentation by Fr. Samuel Fernández Eyzaguirre, Professor of Theology at the Pontifical Catholic University, Chile. Lunch will be served immediately following. Please RSVP to Susan Coyne at scoyne1@nd.edu

Fr. Samuel Fernández Eyzaguirre is a priest of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile. He completed his doctorate in 1997 in the Augustinianum in Rome. In addition to directing dissertations on Patristic topics, he has taught Trinity and Christology at the Faculty of Theology of the Pontifical Catholic University Chile and has served as Dean of the Faculty. He was the editor of the unpublished works of St. Alberto Hurtado, one of the few saints in modern history who was also an academic. His new edition and translation of Origen’s Peri archon has just been published as Sobre los principios (Madrid: Ciudad Nueva, 2015). His other books include: Cristo Médico, según Orígenes. La actividad médica como metáfora de la acción divina (Studia Ephemeridis Augustinianum 64), Roma 1999; Orígenes. Homilías sobre el Cantar de los cantares (Madrid: Ciudad Nueva, 2000); Padre Alberto Hurtado S.J., Tres miradas sobre su vida y su muerte (Santiago: Editorial Tiberíades, 2001); Jesús. Los orígenes históricos del cristianismo: desde el año 28 al 48 d.C. (Santiago: Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile, 2007); Creed en la fuerza de vuestro sacerdocio. Palabras del Papa Benedicto a los sacerdotes (Santiago: Mutual Pax Chile, 2009); Orígenes. Homilías sobre el Isaías (Madrid: Ciudad Nueva, 2012).