Irenaeus of Lyons
Irenaeus of Lyons

Author: Robert M. Grant

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-12-05

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1134815182

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During the second century the Christian world was shaken by the Gnostics. Irenaeus came from Asia Minor via Rome to become bishop of Lyons, clarify Christian doctrines and fight the Gnostics with a major, five-volume work. He was a living part of his contemporary culture and his approach filled early Christian thought with new life. The writings of Irenaeus exist as a whole only in Latin and Armenian. This study offers new translations of significant parts of his work, critically based on a complete reconstruction of the original Greek in the French series Sources Chretiennes. This collection of sources will also be an invaluable resource for students of the Early Church.

On the Apostolic Preaching
On the Apostolic Preaching

Author: Saint Irenaeus (Bishop of Lyon.)

Publisher: St Vladimir's Seminary Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780881411744

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St Irenaeus is the most important theologian of the second century, laying the foundation for all future Christian thinkers. Irenaeus tells us that he had known Polycarp, who had himself known the apostles and been appointed by them as the bishop of the church of Smyrna. This direct contact with the immediate successors of the apostles was of importance for Irenaeus in his later defense of Christian practice and teaching. In this work Against the Heresies, he was the first to utilize the full range of apostolic writings in his controversy with the Gnostics and others. Uniting, for the first time, the whole history of God's activity in one all-encompassing divine economy, Irenaeus demonstrates that there is but one God, who has made Himself known through His one Son, Jesus Christ, by the one Holy Spirit, to the one human race, bringing His creatures made from mud into the intimacy of communion with Himself.

St. Irenaeus of Lyons Against the Heresies
St. Irenaeus of Lyons Against the Heresies

Author: Saint Irenaeus (Bishop of Lyon.)

Publisher: The Newman Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780809104543

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This work, which establishes Irenaeus as the most important of the theologians of the second century, is a detailed and effective refutation of Gnosticism, and a major source of information on the various Gnostic sects and doctrines. This volume contains Book One. +

Irenaeus of Lyons
Irenaeus of Lyons

Author: John Behr

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013-07-25

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 019921462X

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A full, contextual study of Irenaeus of Lyons, the first great theologian of the Christian tradition. John Behr sets Irenaeus both within his own context of the second century and our own contemporary context.

The Scandal of the Incarnation
The Scandal of the Incarnation

Author: Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Publisher: Ignatius Press

Published: 2012-09-26

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 1681495481

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Saint Irenaeus was the first great Christian theologian. Born in Asia Minor in about 130 A.D., he became Bishop of Lyons and died as a martyr early in the third century. His main work, Adversus Haereses (Against the Heresies), is as relevant today as it was eighteen hundred years ago. It is a critique of Gnosticism, the 'anti-body' heresy, which, far from dying out, continues to flourish as the main threat to the Christian faith in our own day. With serenity and good humor, Irenaeus unfolds the unity of God's purpose in creation and redemption, in Old and New Testaments. The flesh and blood which Gnosticism so despised has been assumed by God in the womb of the Virgin Mary, and glorified in the Resurrection and the Eucharist. In this book, quotations from Saint Irenaeus have been arranged thematically in order to show the unity of his Christian view of the world. The texts have been selected and are introduced by the late Hans Urs von Balthasar, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest Catholic theologians of this century. They are translated by John Saward. "Everything in Irenaeus is bathed in a warm and radiant joy, a wise and majestic gentleness. His words of struggle are hard as iron and crystal clear, ... so penetrating that they cannot fail to enlighten the unbiased observer." - Hans Urs von Balthasar

The Writings of Irenaeus
The Writings of Irenaeus

Author: Saint Bishop of Lyon Irenaeus

Publisher: Franklin Classics

Published: 2018-10-11

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780342453993

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Irenaeus of Lyons and the Theology of the Holy Spirit
Irenaeus of Lyons and the Theology of the Holy Spirit

Author: Anthony Briggman

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-01-12

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0199641536

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A close study of aspects of Irenaeus' pneumatology that demonstrates how Irenaeus combined Second Temple Jewish traditions of the spirit with New Testament theology to produce the most complex Jewish-Christian pneumatology of the early church.

Irenaeus on the Christian Faith
Irenaeus on the Christian Faith

Author: James R. Payton Jr.

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2011-01-17

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1498270034

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Irenaeus of Lyons (c. 130-202) was the greatest theologian of the early post-apostolic church. In his writings we have access to the Christian teaching of a spiritual grandson of the apostle John, for Irenaeus' instructor in the faith was himself taught by the apostle. Irenaeus stresses the importance of apostolic teaching and faithfully handing on the apostolic tradition. His presentation of the Christian faith deserves careful attention, since he knew exactly what he was talking about. There is no better avenue to the apostolic tradition in the early church than his writings. Irenaeus' massive Against Heresies offers a winsome and compelling presentation of the Christian faith, but few have read this magnum opus since the first two of its five books focus on exposing and answering Gnostic heresies, and the only complete English version is difficult to read. This volume eliminates both these obstacles. James Payton has condensed Against Heresies by cutting out most of the interaction with the Gnostics, allowing Irenaeus' rich presentation on the Christian faith to shine through. Furthermore, the author has refurbished the English prose to make it accessible to contemporary readers. With this distillation readers now have access to Irenaeus' rich presentation of the Christian faith, saturated in a thorough knowledge of Scripture and steadfastly rooted in the apostolic tradition of the early church. Anyone who wants to know what the early Christian church had received and passed on from the apostles can do no better than to begin with this book.