“philosophically” (3.58; 3.79).36 The most fascinating aspect of this extended analogy between Christianity and philosophy is the way Origen uses it to counter Celsus’s charge that Christians accept things on faith without evidence. In a response that sounds astonishingly postmodern, he points out that all members of philosophical schools begin with unproven assumptions and start with believing (1.10). Origen’s language about philosophy places him squarely within the world of Greco-Roman moralists,