c. 300
Greek
On the Resurrection
Methodius of Olympus · d. c. 311
A direct attack on Origen's teaching that the risen body will be a spiritual form rather than this flesh, insisting that the same body is raised and transformed.
201–300
The Third Century
1 work
301–400
The Fourth Century
3 works
c. 308–310; partly survives
Greek
Apology for Origen
Pamphilus of Caesarea · d. 309
Written in prison with Eusebius's help, answering charge by charge the accusations against Origen's orthodoxy, mostly by quoting him at length.
Early Church · ApologyRead elsewhere
374
Greek
The Well-Anchored Man
Ancoratus
Epiphanius of Salamis · c. 315 – 403
A letter to Christians in Pamphylia who asked for something to hold on to, written three years before the Panarion and covering the same ground more calmly: the Trinity, the resurrection of this same body, and a warning against Origen's allegory.
c. 393–399; unexpurgated text survives only in Syriac
Greek, surviving in Syriac
The Gnostic Chapters
Kephalaia Gnostica
Evagrius Ponticus · 345 – 399
Six centuries of dense, deliberately obscure sentences on contemplation, ninety to a hundred rather than a hundred each, so that the reader notices the gaps. Behind them is a doctrine of minds that fell from unity into bodies and will be restored to a state where even the distinction between them dissolves.
401–500
The Fifth Century
2 works
401–402
Latin
Apology Against Rufinus
Jerome · c. 347 – 420
Two old friends who had studied together and shared a monastery tear each other apart in print over how much of Origen either of them had once believed. Jerome accuses Rufinus of doctoring his translations; Rufinus quotes Jerome's own earlier praise of Origen back at him.
c. 402
Latin
Ecclesiastical History
Rufinus of Aquileia · c. 344–411
A Latin translation of Eusebius with two further books carrying the story to the death of Theodosius, made as the Goths moved into Italy.
Western · HistoryRead elsewhere
501–600
The Sixth Century
2 works
543
Greek
Letter to Menas Against Origen
Justinian I · 482–565
An imperial letter listing and condemning the errors attributed to Origen — pre-existent souls, the restoration of all things — and requiring bishops to subscribe.
Byzantine · EdictRead elsewhere
553
Greek
The Anathemas of the Second Council of Constantinople
The Second Council of Constantinople
Fourteen anathemas condemning the Three Chapters and clarifying Chalcedon in Cyrilline terms, with Origenism condemned in the same period.
Ecumenical · CanonsRead elsewhere