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“The Pillar and Ground of Truth”: Irenaeus’ Use of Ecclesiology Against the Heresies
Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2023 This paper seeks to evaluate the ecclesiology of St. Irenaeus, bishop of Lyons, particularly as it relates to his defense of orthodoxy against false teaching in his five-volume work, Against Heresies.
Chang Geoffrey
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Daemons, Cups of Forgetfulness and Eternity of the Soul in Irenaeus’ Adversus haereses 2.33-34
Patristica et MediaevaliaIn Adversus haereses 2.33-34, Irenaeus rejects the Platonic view of the pre-existence of the soul, and his tale of a daemon who serves up the drink from the Lethe, the river of forgetfulness. Irenaeus’ argument appears in the context of a larger polemic
Jonatan Cornish Simons Camacho
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Baptism in Irenaeus of Lyons: Testimony to and Participation with the Triune God
Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2019 Irenaeus of Lyons wrote Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching (Epideixis) to encourage his readers of the solidity of their faith, especially as this faith was connected to baptism under the threefold seal: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Graham Christopher A.
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Tell us no secrets: St. Irenaeus’ contra-gnostic doctrine of communion
Vox Patrum, 2018 Discussion related to the potential for mystical union with God was largely absent from the writings of the Church Fathers prior to the late-second century. Toward the end of that century, however, the concept of communion with God emerged as a topic of
Don W. Springer
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Verbum Christi, 2018 This article seeks to express the uniqueness of John Calvin's understanding of the meaning of Imago Dei as his reaction to the understanding of the theologians of Irenaeus and Medieval Scholastic Aquinas, then to explain the implications of Imago Dei ...
Tumpal Hutahaean
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Vigiliae christianae (Print), 2023 This article argues (1) that there is insufficient evidence to conclude that a or the “gnostic heresy” (Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.11.1) referred to a specific social group whose theology is witnessed in Against Heresies 1.29 and (2) that the ...
Vigiliae Christianae, M. D. Litwa
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Passion of Saint Ireneaus of Sirmium [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной Церкви, 2018 This paper represents the fi rst translation into Russian of the Passion of St. Irenaeus of Sirmium which is a literary monument of Latin hagiography of Late Antiquity. St. Irenaeus had suff ered martyrdom in the Roman province of Pannonia Secunda during
Eugene Rosenblum
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The Gift of Reason: St. Irenaeus and John Paul II in Dialogue
Teologia w Polsce, 2022 St. Irenaeus as a western figure has a different exegetical account of Genesis which provides some of the foundational principles for his theological concepts of the ‘new Adam’ and recapitulation.
J. Francois
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The Story of Human, from Authority to Salvation [PDF]
Comparative Theology, 2010 The discussion of the human authority and his abuse of the authority are one of the main teachings of Testamaents and so Christian thinker. Of these, Irenaeus and Tertullian –of first church fathers-both regard the human authority as a necessity in the ...
Neda Khoshaghani, Amirabass Alizamani
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‘The Glory of God is a Human Being Fully Alive’ (Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses 4.20.7)
Expository Times, 2022 The church affirms that God created male and female in God’s image, but research across diverse church traditions suggests the theological and pastoral consequences of this fact are easily set aside.
Elizabeth Koepping
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