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Irenaeus Against the Heresies
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
ISBN:
9780898703153
Author: Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Length: 117 pages
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