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Book Synopsis Irenaeus, the Scriptures, and the Apostolic Writings by : Kenneth Laing
Download or read book Irenaeus, the Scriptures, and the Apostolic Writings written by Kenneth Laing and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenneth Laing challenges the concept of Irenaeus as the primary witness to the point at which the New Testament achieved scriptural status, and calls into question some of the most basic conclusions and assumptions of New Testament canon formation scholarship. Laing proposes a new interpretation of Irenaeus' understanding of the nature and basis of authority of the New Testament writings, based on his christocentric theology of revelation. By exploring the texts themselves, the concept of authority, scriptural tradition and the question of inspiration, Laing argues that while the writings possess authority equal to the Jewish scriptures, it is their apostolic origin and the apostles' relationship to Christ – not inspiration – which forms the basis of the unique revelatory authority of the New Testament writings. Laing thus stresses that Irenaeus regards the New Testament writings as a written record of the apostolic tradition and the primary means of accessing its content, rather than as a purely scriptural text.
Book Synopsis On the Apostolic Preaching by : Saint Irenaeus (Bishop of Lyon.)
Download or read book On the Apostolic Preaching written by Saint Irenaeus (Bishop of Lyon.) and published by St Vladimir's Seminary Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Irenaeus on the Christian Faith by : James R Payton
Download or read book Irenaeus on the Christian Faith written by James R Payton and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irenaeus of Lyons (c130-202) 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.
Book Synopsis Five Books of S. Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons by : Saint Irenaeus (Bishop of Lyon.)
Download or read book Five Books of S. Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons written by Saint Irenaeus (Bishop of Lyon.) and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis St. Irenaeus by : Saint Irenaeus (Bishop of Lyon.)
Download or read book St. Irenaeus written by Saint Irenaeus (Bishop of Lyon.) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Third Book Of St. Irenaeus, Bishop Of Lyons, Against Heresies by : Saint Irenaeus (Bishop of Lyon )
Download or read book The Third Book Of St. Irenaeus, Bishop Of Lyons, Against Heresies written by Saint Irenaeus (Bishop of Lyon ) and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A translation and analysis of the third book of St. Irenaeus' influential work 'Against Heresies'. This book offers a detailed critique of Gnostic teachings and provides insights into the early development of Christian theology. With an informative introduction and helpful notes, this volume is an essential resource for scholars and students of early Christian history and theology. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Irenaeus and Paul by : Todd D. Still
Download or read book Irenaeus and Paul written by Todd D. Still and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the work of Tertullian and Paul and The Apostolic Fathers and Paul, this volume continues a series of specially commissioned studies by leading voices in New Testament/early Christianity and patristics studies to consider how Paul was read, interpreted and received by the early Church Fathers. In this volume the use of Paul's writings is examined within the writings of Irenaeus of Lyon. Issues of influence, reception, theology and history are examined to show how Paul's work influenced the developing theology of the early Church. The literary style of Paul's output is also examined. The contributors to the volume represent leading lights in the study of Irenaeus, as well as respected names from the field of New Testament studies.
Book Synopsis On the Ontological Status of the Apostolic Writings According to Irenaeus by : Kenneth R. Laing
Download or read book On the Ontological Status of the Apostolic Writings According to Irenaeus written by Kenneth R. Laing and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis sets out a new interpretation of Irenaeus' understanding of the nature and basis of authority of the apostolic writings, on the basis of his theology of revelation. In Part One, the traditional interpretation of Irenaeus' view of the apostolic writings as scripture equivalent to the Jewish scriptures is refuted through an extended evaluation of its three substantiating arguments. This evaluation finds that Irenaeus reserves the use of grafhv as a scriptural title exclusively for the Jewish scriptures, that his use of the apostolic writings as the testimony of authoritative authors differs significantly from his use of the Jewish scriptures as an inherently authoritative scriptural text, and that the evident equivalence of authority between the apostolic writings and the Jewish scriptures does not entail equivalent scriptural status. These findings lead to the conclusion that the traditional interpretation cannot sustain its argument. In Part Two, an alternative account of the place of the apostolic writings in Irenaeus' thought is advanced. It is contended that rather than being conceived as scripture, the apostolic writings constitute the written record of the apostolic tradition and the primary means of accessing its content, deriving their unique revelatory authority on the basis of apostolic origin. Apostolicity, not inspiration, accounts for the unique revelatory authority of the apostolic writings. An investigation of Irenaeus' understanding of the Word as Revealer of the Father reveals that apostolicity functions as a second category of unique revelatory authority (alongside yet distinct from the scriptures) on the basis of the apostles' unparalleled relationship to Jesus Christ, the consummation of the Word's revelation. In this way the apostolic writings possess the ontological status of authoritative written record of the divinely sanctioned mediation of the Word's consummate revelation to humanity.
Book Synopsis On the Ontological Status of the Apostolic Writings According to Irenaeus by : Keneth R. Laing
Download or read book On the Ontological Status of the Apostolic Writings According to Irenaeus written by Keneth R. Laing and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Irenaeus's Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching by : Iain M. MacKenzie
Download or read book Irenaeus's Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching written by Iain M. MacKenzie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002. The theology of Irenaeus, and the Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching in particular, is pivotal in showing the way in which the fathers of the church interpreted scripture and distilled doctrine. The Demonstration is an important hinge showing how the doctrine of the fourth century with its definitive councils and definitions of faith, opens out from the new testament apostolic and evangelical witness. Presenting the full translation of the Demonstration of Irenaeus by Dean Armitage Robinson, this book offers a detailed theological commentary by Canon Iain MacKenzie on this foundational doctrinal text. MacKenzie sets out the main theological themes throughout Irenaeus' work, and explores his method of systematic theology, Athanasius's dependence on Irenaeus, and Irenaeus' influence on doctrine in the fourth century - particularly the works of Athanasius, Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus and Gregory of Nyssa. Highlighting the importance of this second century theologian for theology today, this commentary and theological interpretation offers an incentive to study Irenaeus in the wider development of Christian doctrine as a cardinal figure in the appreciation of systematic theology.
Book Synopsis The Question of Canon by : Michael J Kruger
Download or read book The Question of Canon written by Michael J Kruger and published by Inter-Varsity Press. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years now, the topic of the New Testament canon has been the main focus of my research and writing. It is an exciting field of study that probes into questions that have long fascinated both scholars and laymen alike, namely when and how these 27 books came to be regarded as a new scriptural deposit. But, the story of the New Testament canon is bigger than just the "when" and the "how". It is also, and perhaps most fundamentally, about the "why". Why did Christians have a canon at all? Does the canon exist because of some later decision or action of the second- or third-century church? Or did it arise more naturally from within the early Christian faith itself? Was the canon an extrinsic phenomenon, or an intrinsic one? These are the questions this book is designed to address. And these are not micro questions, but macro ones. They address foundational and paradigmatic issues about the way we view the canon. They force us to consider the larger framework through which we conduct our research - whether we realized we had such a framework or not. Of course, we are not the first to ask such questions about why we have a canon. Indeed, for many scholars this question has already been settled. The dominant view today, as we shall see below, is that the New Testament is an extrinsic phenomenon; a later ecclesiastical development imposed on books originally written for another purpose. This is the framework through which much of modern scholarship operates. And it is the goal of this volume to ask whether it is a compelling one. To be sure, it is no easy task challenging the status quo in any academic field. But, we should not be afraid to ask tough questions. Likewise, the consensus position should not be afraid for them to be asked.
Book Synopsis The Writings of Irenaeus by : Saint Bishop of Lyon Irenaeus
Download or read book The Writings of Irenaeus written by Saint Bishop of Lyon Irenaeus and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Against Heresies - written by Irenaeus and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Against Heresies - Book IV" from Irenaeus. Bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul (-202A.D.).
Book Synopsis Belief and Religion in Barbarian Europe c. 350-700 by : Marilyn Dunn
Download or read book Belief and Religion in Barbarian Europe c. 350-700 written by Marilyn Dunn and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the accepted historical belief that they were mere passive recipients of Christian doctrine and providing insights into the way they would initially have apprehended a very different type of religion in the light of their own beliefs and intuitions, the book also examines the gradual adjustments which the Christian Church itself was forced to make across the period in order to consolidate large-scale conversions. Drawing on an exceptionally wide range of source material offering new approaches to evidence drawn from writers such as Tacitus, Ambrose, Augustine, Jordanes, as well as the Indiculus Superstitionum, and Pirmin's Scarapsus, it supplements these with material drawn from liturgical texts, hagiography, homilies, ecclesiastical and royal legislation and also from European folklore, interpreted in the light of latest theory to provide an authoritative overview of the period.
Book Synopsis The Writings of Irenaeus by : Saint Irenaeus (Bishop of Lyon.)
Download or read book The Writings of Irenaeus written by Saint Irenaeus (Bishop of Lyon.) and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Biblical Theology of Saint Irenaeus by : John Lawson
Download or read book The Biblical Theology of Saint Irenaeus written by John Lawson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-02-21 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the history of the early Church the story of a movement away from the religion of the New Testament into Hellenic speculation, institutionalism, and bare moralism? Many present issues are affected by the judgment made upon this matter, which the author seeks to illuminate in his Cambridge Dissertation. There is in St. Irenaeus a doctrine of Creation and Revelation by ÒThe Two Hands of God, and likewise ÒRecapitulation, and exposition of the Saving Work of Christ. The claim is here advanced that of these doctrines the former is an expression of the Hebraic conception of the Living God, who is transcendent yet immediately active in Creation and Revelation. The latter is thoroughly Pauline, and is a statement of the ÒClassic theology of the Atonement. Together with his necessary emphasis upon the Church and Episcopate, Irenaeus has preserved the Gospel of real redemption by personal faith in Christ.
Download or read book Early Christian Writings written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1987-04-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings in this volume cast a glimmer of light upon the emerging traditions and organization of the infant church, during an otherwise little-known period of its development. A selection of letters and small-scale theological treatises from a group known as the Apostolic Fathers, several of whom were probably disciples of the Apostles, they provide a first-hand account of the early Church and outline a form of early Christianity still drawing on the theology and traditions of its parent religion, Judaism. Included here are the first Epistle of Bishop Clement of Rome, an impassioned plea for harmony; The Epistle of Polycarp; The Epistle of Barnabas; The Didache; and the Seven Epistles written by Ignatius of Antioch - among them his moving appeal to the Romans that they grant him a martyr's death.
