Origen founded the Christian School of Caesarea, where he taught logic, cosmology, natural history, and theology, and became regarded by the churches of Palestine and Arabia as the ultimate authority on all matters of theology. Demetrius condemned Origen for insubordination and accused him of having castrated himself and of having taught that even Satan would eventually attain salvation, an accusation which Origen vehemently denied. He came into conflict with Demetrius, the bishop of Alexandria, in 231 after he was ordained as a presbyter by his friend, the bishop of Caesarea, while on a journey to Athens through Palestine. He devoted himself to his studies and adopted an ascetic lifestyle. When he was eighteen years old, Origen became a catechist at the Catechetical School of Alexandria. Origen sought martyrdom with his father at a young age but was prevented from turning himself in to the authorities by his mother. He has been described as "the greatest genius the early church ever produced". He was one of the most influential and controversial figures in early Christian theology, apologetics, and asceticism. He was a prolific writer who wrote roughly 2,000 treatises in multiple branches of theology, including textual criticism, biblical exegesis and hermeneutics, homiletics, and spirituality. 253), also known as Origen Adamantius, was an early Christian scholar, ascetic, and theologian who was born and spent the first half of his career in Alexandria. Virtually all of subsequent Christian theology including Athanasius, Arius, Rufinus, John of Jerusalem, Dionysius of Alexandria, Basil, Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory of Nazianzus, Gregory Thaumaturgus, Theophilus of Alexandria, Maximus, John Scotus Eriugena, Erasmus, Henry More, Karl Rahner, Pope Benedict XVI, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac
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