Heine is one of the world’s leading experts on the life and theology of the third century Origenes of Alexandria, who was himself undoubtedly the most significant theologian the church had seen since the evangelist John, and without question, the first theologian of international renown and importance that Christianity had so far produced. Origen’s legacy was to prove fundamental in terms of biblical interpretation, dogmatic theology of the person of Christ and the Trinity, of spirituality, and the concept of the Church assuming a pastoral and intellectual mission to outside society. But there were conflicts with his legacy, and by the classical patristic age of the fourth to fifth centuries, several voices were raised seeking to radically censor his work or even consign it to oblivion. The great Cappadocian fathers Basil the Great and Gregory of Nazianzus set out to rescue “the best of” Origen’s writings on scripture and doctrine and thereby claim him as one of the greats who provided a traditionalist support to their Nicene position. Accordingly, they (probably) worked together to issue a florilegium (known in patristic Greek as a “Philokalia”). This was a volume that, because of their saintly and authoritative endorsement, saved Origen’s name from the opprobrium of his enemies and had an incredible impact through later Christian history; serving to educate generations of Christian bishops, and preachers, though it fell into obscurity in modern times until George Lewis rendered Robinson’s 1893 edition of the Greek text, into English in an edition published at Edinburgh in 1911. Both volumes have long been out of print. Professor Heine has now put us once more in his debt by making a new and scholarly edition of the Philocalia Origenis with a fluid and elegant translation into modern English, against a facing Greek text prepared by Professor John Behr, updating the earlier critical edition of Robinson and illuminated with superb textual apparatus and annotations. This is a volume that is essential reading for all scholars of Late Antiquity and Early Church history and should be studied with close attention by all who deal with exegesis of Christian scripture. All in all, a great scholarly achievement and beautifully produced by OUP in their Early Christian Texts series.