Consider the answer provided by theologian Werner Jaeger in The Harvard Theological Review back in 1959: “The most important fact in the history of Christian doctrine was that the father of Christian theology, Origen, was a Platonic philosopher at the school of Alexandria.
उसने मसीही धर्म - सिद्धान्त में अमर प्राण के बारे में विस्तृत शिक्षाएँ जोड़ दीं, जो उसने अफ़लातून से ली थीं । ”