Wes explores Origen's treatment of the 7 songs of Scripture as marking our spiritual journey toward God.

Origen shows how the Song of Songs is not simply bizarre erotic poetry, but central to revealing the relationship between Christ and the soul and church.

Nathan Gilmour joins Mysterion to discuss ways of reading Scripture from antiquity to our modern period. Along the way they touch on everything from Aristotle to Dante to Walter Brueggemann.

Wes and Ethan explore Origen's view of the resurrection and how it includes the church and the whole cosmos.

Wes and Ethan explore Origen's interpretation of Christ's entry into Jerusalem as also His entry into the human soul.

Ethan follows Origen's lead in a meditation on the radical priority of Christ in theology, Scriptural reading, and spiritual life. Along the way he let's Origen challenge our modern assumptions about how to identify God.

Wes and Ethan discuss Origen's profound reflections on "the Word was with God and the Word was God."

Wes and Ethan allow Origen to lead them through John 1:1, revealing the ways in which Christ is "the beginning" and "the Word."

Ethan and Wes begin Origen's commentary on John by discussing the role of the interpreter of scripture. Origen's view, they suggest, is surprising and fruitful.