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Clear searchIrenaeus of Lyons · Early Christian theology and polemic · c. 180–190
I value Irenaeus for his remarkably high view of Scripture and for the patience with which he first explains his opponents and then answers them. His rebuttal of Gnosticism contains powerful discuss…
View recommendation →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…ty. It is recognition of where authority finally resides. The Church’s Ancient Confession Irenaeus provides a remarkable standard by which to test this question. Writing in the second century against the Gnostic schools, he described the faith received by the worldwide Church fro…
Read article →What the historical evidence proves—and what it does not
…g transformation, catching up, and ascent into heaven. Darby plainly did not invent that. Irenaeus and Victorinus likewise contain ideas of righteous deliverance in relation to final tribulation, but their chronology appears closer to removal from within or near the midst of the…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…not be quoted as though they did. The overlapping elements are nevertheless substantial. Irenaeus, writing in the second century, connected Daniel's half-week with a future personal Antichrist, a three-and-a-half-year reign, a temple setting, and Christ's subsequent coming (Agai…
Read article →Why the Son assumed a complete human nature, not merely a body
…e. See Eusebius, Church History, V.28 and Hippolytus, Refutation of All Heresies, VII.23. Irenaeus: Against views that divided Jesus and Christ, Irenaeus insists that the apostles knew one Jesus Christ and rejects the claim that “Christ descended upon Jesus.” See Irenaeus, Agains…
Read article →The crucifixion in history, Scripture and the Qur'an
…lance deserves examination, but any claim of direct dependence must be stated cautiously. Irenaeus, writing around the late second century, attributes a clear substitution story to the followers of Basilides. In his report, Simon of Cyrene is transformed to resemble Jesus and is…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…at proximity made Valentinianism more difficult to identify than a wholly alien religion. Irenaeus complained that its teachers used familiar language while assigning it unfamiliar meanings. Tertullian mocked their secrecy and complexity. Clement of Alexandria preserved excerpts…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…rist, connected him with a rebuilt Jewish temple, and treated the crisis as still future. Irenaeus defended a future earthly kingdom and used prophetic descriptions of Jerusalem and Israel in his account of it. "He means, the Temple of the Jews which has been destroyed." —Cyril o…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…ed Christians were Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The fourfold Gospel long predates Islam. Irenaeus argued explicitly from four Gospels in the second century. Syriac Christianity possessed Tatian's Gospel harmony, compiled from the four, and later the separated Gospels in Old Syri…
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