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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: Ancient Roman eunuchs, Byzantine eunuchs, Chinese eunuchs, Origen, Narses, Bagoas, Galli, Halotus, Staurakios, Philetaerus, Samonas, Nikephoritzes, Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople, Aetios, Chrysaphius, Pothinus, Melito of Sardis, Mohammad Khan Qajar, Tong Guan, Peter Phokas, Wimund, Zhao Gao, Eusebius, Zong Ai, Huang Hao, Ganymedes, Eutropius, Hadan Suleiman Pasha, Judar Pasha, Heraclius, Eleutherius, Eustratius Garidas, Artoxares, John the Eunuch, Basil Lekapenos, Philip of Mahdia, Hadim Ali Pasha, Li Lianying, Patriarch Nicetas I of Constantinople, Hermotimus of Pedasa, Sun Yaoting, Lausus, Ebed-Melech, Zuo Feng. Excerpt: Origen (Greek: Ōrigenēs), or Origen Adamantius, 184/5-253/4, was an early Christian Alexandrian scholar and theologian, and one of the most distinguished writers of the early Church. As early as the fourth century, his orthodoxy was suspect, in part because he believed in the preexistence of souls. The works of such 20th-century scholars as Henri de Lubac, SJ, and Jean Danielou, SJ, have rehabilitated his reputation as a first-rate theologian. Today he is regarded as one of the Church Fathers. Origen excelled in multiple branches of theological scholarship, including textual criticism, biblical interpretation, philosophical theology, preaching, and spirituality. Some of his teachings, however, quickly became controversial. Notably, he frequently referred to his hypothesis of the preexistence of souls. As in the beginning all intelligent beings were united to God, Origen also held out the possibility, though he did not assert so definitively, that in the end all beings, perhaps even the devil himself, would be reconciled to God in what is called the apokatastasis ("restitution"). Origen's views on the Trinity, in which he saw the Son of God as subordinate to God the Father, became controver...
