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Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
Chapter 1 The Life of Irenaeus; Chapter 2 Gnostic Origins; Chapter 3 Against the Valentinians; Chapter 4 Christian Books and Traditions; Chapter 5 Greek Education Against Gnosticism; Chapter 6 Rhetoric in Theology; Part 1 Translation Against Heresies; Chapter 7 Preface To Books I and II; Chapter 8 Book I; Chapter 9 Book II; Chapter 10 Book III; Chapter 11 Book IV; Chapter 12 Book V;
Biography
Robert M.Grant has taught for nearly fifty years at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, working and writing intensively on second-century Gnosticism. His most recent book is Heresy and Criticism (1993).
`Grant writes simply and stight forwarldy, allowing extensive quotations from Irenaeus to illustrate his expositions'
