Pseudo-Origen is the name conventionally given to anonymous authors whose works are misattributed to
Origen and by extension to the works themselves.
These include:
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De recta in Deum fide, a Greek dialogue of the late 3rd or early 4th century
[ "Adamantius", in F. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.), The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd ed. (Oxford University Press, 2005).]
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Planctus Origenis, also called Lamentum or Paenitentia, a purported retraction of some of his views regarded as heretical, supposedly translated from Greek into Latin by Jerome of Stridon
[Henri De Lubac, Theology in History, trans. Anne Englund Nash (Ignatius Press, 1996), p. 62.]
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Commentarius in Iob, a Latin commentary on Job from Vandal Africa
[Leslie Dossey, "The Last Days of Vandal Africa: An Arian Commentary on Job and Its Historical Context", The Journal of Theological Studies, N.S. 54, 1 (2003): 60–138. ]
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De Maria Magdalena, a Latin homily on John 20:11–18
[John P. McCall, "Chaucer and the Pseudo Origen De Maria Magdalena: A Preliminary Study", Speculum 46, 3 (1971): 491–509.]
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Vitae Mediatrix, 6th-century Latin treatise on the title Mediatrix
[Michael O'Carroll, Theotokos: A Theological Encyclopedia of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Liturgical Press, 2000), p. 241.]
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Chronicle of Pseudo-Origen, a lost chronicle used as a source for the Collectio Hibernensis
[Roy Flechner, "The Chronicle of Pseudo-Origen: Simulating a World Chronicle in Seventh-Century Ireland", Peritia 31 (2021): 89–106.]
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Six homilies on Luke and Matthew attributed to Origen in the homiliary compiled by Paul the Deacon for Charlemagne are usually regarded as misattributed,
[Jay Diehl, "Origen's Story: Heresy, Book Production, and Monastic Reform at Saint-Laurent de Liège", Speculum 95, 4 (2020): 1058n. ][Zachary Guiliano, The Homiliary of Paul the Deacon: Religious and Cultural Reform in Carolingian Europe (Brepols, 2021), p. 109.] including:
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Homilia VI in Matthaeum
[Anne J. Duggan, "The Salem FitzStephen: Heidelberg Universitäts-Bibliothek Cod. Salem ix. 30", Thomas Becket: Friends, Networks, Texts and Cult (Variorum Reprints, 2007), pp. 51–86.]
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Homilia VII in Matthaeum, elsewhere Pseudo-Bede
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