Origen on Prayer

Origen on Prayer includes these topics:


• Scriptural Uses of the General Words For Prayer

• Objections to Prayer

• Answer to Objections: Man’s Freewill and God’s Foreknowledge

• Answer to Objections: Conditions Necessary to Prayer

• Answer to Objections: He Who Prays Prays Not Alone

• Answer To Objections: The True Place Of Prayer In Man’s Life

• Answer to Objections: Signal Instances of Prayer

• The Content of Prayer: Its Four Moods

• The Recipient of Prayer in Its Four Moods

• The Objects of Prayer

• The Lord’s Prayer: the Preface in Matthew

• The Lord’s Prayer — Our Father in Heaven

• Hallowed Be Thy Name

• Thy Kingdom Come

• Thy Will Be Done on Earth Also As in Heaven

• Give Us Today Our Needful Bread

• And Forgive Us Our Debts As We Also Have Forgiven Our Debtors

• And Bring Us Not Into Temptation But Deliver Us From Evil

• Formalities of Prayer: Conclusion


Origen, or Origen Adamantius, was a scholar and early Christian theologian who was born and spent the first half of his career in Alexandria. He was a prolific writer in multiple branches of theology, including textual criticism, biblical exegesis and hermeneutics, philosophical theology, preaching, and spirituality.