Balthasar’s anthology of texts from the second-century “man of steel” offers a systematic view of his entire theology. While acknowledging the problematic elements of Origen’s thinking, Balthasar reveals him here as a man of the Church – one whose entire existence revolved around the (incarnate) Word that was also at the center of his exegetically saturated speculation. In these pages, then, Balthasar gives modern readers access to the perennially valid center of a theological work that has had an enormous positive influence on Christian thought and spirituality down through the ages.