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| | IRENAEUS - LoveToKnow Article on IRENAEUS |
 | | This exposition by Irenaeus of the divine economy and the incarnation was taken as a criterion by later theologians, especially in the Greek Church (cf. | | | Before him the Fourth Gospel did not seem to exist for the Church; Irenaeus made it a living force. | | | And the Pauline epistles are adopted almost bodily by Irenaeus, according to the ideas contained in them; his expositions often present the appearance of a patchwork of St Pauls ideas. |
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http://8.1911encyclopedia.org/I/IR/IRENAEUS.htm
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| | Glimpses bulletin #52: Irenaeus, John's spiritual grandson |
| | The tradition of interpreting the Scriptures in the churches established by the apostles was the norm for interpreting Scriptures and determining the apostolic faith. | | | Irenaeus countered by saying the truth of Scripture was authenticated by the churches established by the apostles. | | | Issue #52: Irenaeus: A Spiritual Grandson of the Apostle John |
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http://chi.gospelcom.net/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps052.shtml
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Irenaeus |
| | During the persecution of Marcus Aurelius, Irenaeus was a priest of the Church of Lyons. | | | This is the "Proof of the Apostolic Preaching." The author's aim here is not to confute heretics, but to confirm the faithful by expounding the Christian doctrine to them, and notably by demonstrating the truth of the Gospel by means of the Old Testament prophecies. | | | In 190 or 191 he interceded with Pope Victor to lift the sentence of excommunication laid by that pontiff upon the Christian communities of Asia Minor which persevered in the practice of the Quartodecimans in regard to the celebration of Easter. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08130b.htm
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| | Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. I |
| | It is certain that Irenaeus was bishop of Lyons, in France, during the latter quarter of the second century. | | | On account of the severity thus evinced, Irenaeus addressed to him a letter (only a fragment of which remains), warning him that if he persisted in the course on which he had entered, the effect would be to rend the Catholic Church in pieces. | | | In the course of this argument, many passages of Scripture are quoted and commented on; many interesting statements are made, bearing on the rule of faith; and much important light is shed on the doctrines, held, as well as the practices observed, by the Church of the second century. |
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http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-01/anf01-56.htm#P6124_1360495
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| | D.Casey: Irenaeus: Touchstone of Catholicity |
| | Although Irenaeus cites Rome as an example of an apostolic church with whom all should be in agreement, [15] it is the unity of belief that determines the catholicity of faith, not the other way around. | | | For Irenaeus, catholicity is the consequence of the universal manifested in the particular. | | | As Irenaeus is the first to systematically reflect upon the nature of the Church as "catholic", Irenaeus is an invaluable guide towards coming to a new understanding of what it should mean for the Church to be catholic today. |
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http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/research/theology/ejournal/aet_1/Casey.htm
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| | POPE JOHN PAUL ON THE CONTEMPORARY IMPORTANCE OF ST IRENAEUS |
| | Irenaeus' final appearance on the level of the universal Church took place during the second phase of the controversy over the date of the celebration of the Christian feast of Easter. | | | In the eyes of Irenaeus, this Gospel, like those of Matthew, Mark and Luke, is essentially a witness to the Paradosis, to the tradition which the Spirit had entrusted to the Apostles and their successors, the bishops. | | | Saint Irenaeus (AH V, 6, 1), for all that, does not escape from the body-soul duality; he presents them as complementary elements of the Christian person, all the better unified to the extent that this person is governed by grace. |
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http://www.ewtn.com/library/Theology/IRENAEUS.HTM
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| | Irenaeus and the Formulation of Orthodox |
| | Irenaeus does not answer satisfactorily, except to say that the function of Christ was to reveal the Father, to redeem mankind, and that the Son is the "hand" of God (a self- conscious hand?). | | | Irenaeus summarily rejects this theology which, by the way, appears to have originated with Paul, in favor of the concept that the Son/ Logos/ Christ who always existed with the Father descended to earth, was born of a virgin, died, was resurrected and ascended to heaven in order to redeem mankind. | | | Irenaeus argues that the Logos is Jesus Christ, who is both the Son of God and, in some mysterious way, God Himself. |
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http://essenes.net/IrenaeusAndTheFormulationOfOrthodox.html
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| | Irenaeus, Jesus living to an old age |
| | Irenaeus never claimed that Jesus lived to have been fifty, and that his error regarding the age of Jesus has no bearing whatever on the validity of tradition, as it is to be accounted for with reference to Irenaeus' dominant theological motif, and the particular persons and claims he was trying to rebut. | | | It is also interesting to note here that Irenaeus claims that, with regard to Jesus entering "old age", the "gospels testify" to it (alongside the "tradition" of the Church). | | | Irenaeus who said only 4 gospels because of 4 quarters of the earth, would probably also say there's only one son because there's only one sun. |
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http://www.tektonics.org/guest/irey50.html
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| | Synoptic Gospels Primer - Glossary: Irenaeus |
| | Irenaeus was, after all, eager to draw direct links between the doctrinal authorities of Catholic Christianity and the apostolic generation. | | | So Irenaeus would naturally infer that a gospel with an apostolic name must come from the era that apostles were still active. | | | The only thing in Irenaeus' statement that would lead someone to infer the chronological priority of Matthew is his attempt to link the canonical gospels with the activity of Peter and Paul. |
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http://virtualreligion.net/primer/irenaeus.html
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| | Fingerprints of Satan: Irenaeus and "A Multitude of Gnostics" by Shane Rosenthal |
| | Irenaeus also accounts for us how some taught that God "in ignorance formed those powers which are inferior to himself angels, and firmaments, and all things earthly" (1.29.4). | | | Similarly, John writes in the first chapter of his gospel narrative that the "Word was with God," (distinct from the Father), the "Word was God" (sharing in divinity) and this "Word was made flesh," a clear argument for both the divinity and humanity of Jesus. | | | One of his arguments in fact is that the uniformity of the church's teaching is in sharp contrast with the varying views of Gnostic teachers such as Marcion, Valentinus, Cerinthus, Saturninus, or the views of the Simonians, Nicolaitans, and Carpocratians. |
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http://homepage.mac.com/shanerosenthal/reformationink/srirenaeus.htm
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| | St. Irenaeus |
| | Irenaeus clearly expounds the Church's teachings on transubstantiation and the sacrificial nature of the Eucharist, presenting arguments and questions that effectively turn the tables on the heretical arguments of the Gnostics. | | | Irenaeus became a priest of the Church of Lyons during the prosecution of Marcus Aurelius. | | | For us today, these brilliant writings present a clear and unequivocal declaration of the early Church's teachings and beliefs in the Eucharistic Presence of Christ and the role of the Church in protecting the deposit of faith that Christ has entrusted to Her. |
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http://www.eucharisticlife.com/ELimages/Timeline/200/Irenaeus.html
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| | Resisting Dualism: Irenaeus |
| | Analogizing the body to a sponge that holds the water of the soul, Irenaeus concludes that "The flesh, therefore, is not destitute [of participation] in the constructive wisdom and power of God." (AH V.3.3) Irenaeus, unlike Paul, sees the body, not just the soul, as the instrument of divinity. | | | Although Irenaeus spends at least as long criticizing gnostic ritual practice and exegetical method as he does its dualist cosmology/ theology, this first (extant) text of anti-heretical literature makes it clear that the "gnostic answer" is not going to be acceptable by the Church orthodoxy. | | | Irenaeus, in Against Heresies, dismisses as theologically unacceptable the Valentinian position that the world was created by some entity other than the God of the Old and New Testaments. |
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http://www.metatronics.net/lit/irenaeus.html
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| | St. Irenaeus |
| | The writings of Irenaeus give him an honored place among the Fathers of the Church for they laid the foundations of Christian theology and, by refuting the errors of the Gnostics,[1] kept the youthful Catholic faith from the danger of corruption by the subtle, pessimistic doctrines of these philosophers. | | | Pope Victor had excommunicated them, and Irenaeus pleaded with him in a beautiful letter to raise the ban, pointing out that these Asiatics were only following their Apostolic tradition, and that the difference of opinion on this minor point had not prevented St. Polycarp and many others from staying in communion. | | | An example of his method is his discussion of one type of Gnostic doctrine, that the visible world was created and is sustained and governed by angelic beings, but not by God, who remains unconnected with it, aloof and unmoved in his own inaccessible sphere. |
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http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/IRENAEUS.htm
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| | Patres - Volume 10, Issue 2 |
| | Irenaeus, the disciple of Polycarp (the disciple of John), explained that the heresies of Cerinthus were a primary target of John's Gospel. | | | A story had been passed on to Irenaeus about how John had entered a bath-house with his disciples, but when seeing that Cerinthus was already inside, "rushed out of the bath-house without bathing, exclaiming, `Let us fly, lest even the bath-house fall down, because Cerinthus, the enemy of the truth, is within'" (3.4:4). | | | The early church owed Irenaeus much for the work he did to defend the catholic faith from heresy. |
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http://www.credenda.org/issues/10-2patres.php
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| | Morphemics: Irenaeus |
| | While bishop, Irenaeus fought against heresy and defended the unity of the church. | | | It is apparent that Irenaeus’ view of recapitulation and of Christ as the goal of creation explains his organization of theology along historical lines. | | | Irenaeus has been called the most important theologian of the second century and among the greatest of any century. |
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| | If Irenaeus was referring to Jesus as being seen in Asia [some believe he was referring to John], then it appears that this was a sighting that Irenaeus believed occurred before the crucifixion, and that, though Jesus was seen in Asia at an older age, this sighting must have occurred before the crucifixion. | | | We do not believe that St. Irenaeus was referring to John, because of the fact that the title of the chapter from which the reference is taken indicates that the topic of discussion surrounded the age of Jesus. | | | So even if he had heard a report that Jesus was alive long after the age of 30, his religious faith in the doctrine would have caused him to draw conclusions based on that doctrine. |
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http://www.tombofjesus.com/Irenaeus.htm
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| | PTET - Did Irenaeus say that Jesus was fifty? |
| | Irenaeus is notable in that he is the first known author to refer to the four New Testament gospels by their current names. | | | explanation: "Irenaeus' point is that Jesus' humanity identifies with human beings of every age..." In doing so, they ignore the sections of Irenaeus which clearly state Jesus's age at death, and rely on the a priori assumption that the Gospel accounts of Jesus being 30 at the time of his death are true. | | | In it, Irenaeus argued forcefully - from the apostlistic tradition of John - that Jesus taught for many years more after his baptism than the twelve months attributed in the Gospels. |
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http://ptet.dubar.com/ecw/irenaeus.html
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| | On Irenaeus' Against Heresies |
| | In the fourth chapter of Book I, Irenaeus recounts the gnostic account of how Achamoth (the passions of Sophia which were separated from her so that she could remain in the Pleroma) was formed and, from her disturbances, how the visible world came into existence. | | | This passage shows, I believe, Irenaeus' understanding that orthodoxy is not a matter of citing the scriptiures but rather of accepting the orthodox pattern of doctrine. | | | As Irenaeus explains, "I have brought forward their modes of expressing themselves, that thus thou mightest understand the deceitfulness of their procedure, and the wickedness of their error" (329). |
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| | Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, Theologian |
| | One of the earliest heresies to arise in the Christian church was Gnosticism, and Irenaeus was one of its chief early opponents. | | | Assuming the Gnostic view of the matter, each of the thirty must be either finite or infinite, material or non-material, and somewhere along the line you would have an infinite being producing a finite one, a spiritual being producing a material one. | | | One solution was to say that there were thirty beings called AEons, and that God had made the first AEon, which made the second AEon, which made the third, and so on to the thirtieth AEon, which made the world. |
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| | Irenaeus, The Proof of the Apostolic Preaching (1920) pp. 69-151. |
| | Irenaeus makes no difficulty about speaking of "the curse of Ham." It is clear that he had a text of the LXX, which enabled him to do so. | | | Elsewhere Irenaeus constantly speaks of the Son and the Spirit as the Hands of God: see Introd. | | | The Armenian translator has probably misunderstood the construction of the Greek: his verbs are all in the infinitive, which suggests that Irenaeus is recording what the faith teaches. |
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http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/irenaeus_02_proof.htm
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| | The Ecole Glossary |
| | In these works, he refuted Gnosticism and defended the belief that the Old Testament God and the New Testament God are one in the same, using the notions of recapitulation and apostolic tradition as proof. | | | Upon Irenaeus' return, he was appointed Bishop of Lyons. | | | Pothinus, first Bishop of Lyons, asked Irenaeus to become a presbyter at the Church of Lyons. |
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http://www2.evansville.edu/ecoleweb/glossary/irenaeus.html
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| | Irenaeus |
| | I will examine some of the things Irenaeus says in light of what I see as three of his most heartfelt motivations: the historical need to establish the authority of the church; his own wish to see the church pull together into a unified, coherent body; and his vision of God's kingdom. | | | "What it comes to," Irenaeus avers, "is that they will not agree with either Scripture or tradition." And he greatly strengthens his argument for the authority of scripture and tradition by scathingly recounting some especially colorful and baggy pieces of gnostic cosmology. | | | Though Irenaeus is strident, I believe this reflects the sincerity of his vision of what the true church represents and where it's headed. |
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| | Lives of the Saints, June 28, Saint Irenaeus |
| | After Irenaeus had spent a number of years in combat against the eastern gnostics and philosophers of error, Saint Polycarp determined to send him to Gaul, where many of the heretics of Asia Minor had already migrated to pursue the Catholic religion, which was beginning to find roots there. | | | By his preaching, Saint Irenaeus in a short time converted almost the whole country to the Faith; the Christians of Lyons became models by their candor, their estrangement from all ambition, their poverty, chastity and temperance, and in this way confounded many adversaries of their religion. | | | This great Doctor of the Church wrote many important works, of which the most famous is his Adversus Haereses, Against the Heresies, in explanation of the Faith. |
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http://magnificat.ca/cal/engl/06-28.htm
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| | Chapter 5 Irenaeus-Dionysius-Melito-Bardesane |
| | Irenaeus regarded the Sabbath as something which pointed forward to the kingdom of God. | | | But it was not such in the time of Irenaeus, A. We have found no writer who flourished before him who applies it to Sunday; it is not so applied by Irenaeus; and we shall find no decisive instance of such use till the close of the second century. | | | Irenaeus certainly teaches a very different doctrine from that of Justin Martyr concerning the commandments. |
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| | Irenaeus, Saint - Columbia Encyclopedia article about Irenaeus, Saint |
| | Irenaeus was the earliest Father of the Church to systematize those Christian beliefs that would later be accepted as orthodox doctrine and is cited frequently by later theologians. | | | It arose in Phrygia (c.172) under the leadership of a certain Montanus and two female prophets, Prisca and Maximillia, whose entranced utterances were deemed oracles of the Holy Spirit. | | | Since the 16th cent., the title Doctor of the Church has also been given by the Roman Catholic Church to later doctrinal writers, including St. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Irenaeus,+Saint
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| | St. Irenaeus - Catholic Online |
| | The writings of St. Irenaeus entitle him to a high place among the fathers of the Church, for they not only laid the foundations of Christian theology but, by exposing and refuting the errors of the gnostics, they delivered the Catholic Faith from the real danger of the doctrines of those heretics. | | | This tomb or shrine was destroyed by the Calvinists in 1562, and all trace of his relics seems to have perished. | | | To this church of Lyon, Irenaeus came to serve as a priest under its first bishop, St. Pothinus, an oriental like himself. |
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http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=291
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| | The ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church |
| | Irenaeus obviously thought that God deals with men and women in an even-handed manner, even though women did occupy a lower slot in society. | | | The heretics indulge in immorality with their women disciples | | | Many women in Gaul have been caught up in this sect |
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| | St. Irenaeus of Lyons Study Archive |
| | In these he says there would be a certain millennium after the resurrection, and that there would be a corporeal reign of Christ on this very earth; which things he appears to have imagined, as if they were authorized by the apostolic narrations, not understanding correctly those matters which they propounded mystically in their representations. | | | Irenaeus (175), Bishop of Lyons, companion of Polycarp, John's pupil, commenting on Jesus’ promise to drink again of the fruit of the vine in His Father’s Kingdom - This "can only be fulfilled upon our Lord’s personal return on earth." | | | This single event, according to Chrysostom and Athanasius, signaled the spiritual and covenantal transfer from old to new. |
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http://www.preteristarchive.com/StudyArchive/i/irenaeus-was-seen.html
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| | Saint Irenaeus Parish, Catholic Church, Oakmont Pennsylvania, Diocese of Pittsburgh |
| | The Faith Community of St. Irenaeus strives for knowledge, service, and faith through our patron's guidance and the Holy Spirit dwelling within us. | | | Saint Irenaeus Parish, Catholic Church, Oakmont Pennsylvania, Diocese of Pittsburgh | | | The Sacraments (Baptism, Marriage, Anointing of the Sick) of the Catholic Church, becoming a member of the faith via RCIA, and also participating as a sponsor or godparent, are available here at St. Irenaeus Parish. |
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http://www.saintirenaeus.org
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| | Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons |
| | It is certain that he learned the Christian faith in Ephesus at the feet of the venerable Polycarp, who in turn had known John the Evangleist. | | | If theology is "thinking about faith" and arranging those thoughts in some systematic order, then Irenaeus has been rightly recognized by Catholics and Protestants alike as the first great systematic theologian. | | | While Irenaeus was on this mission, the aged Bishop of Lyons, Pothinus, died in prison during a local persecution. |
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http://www.geocities.com/episcopal23/irenaeus.html
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| | IRENAEUS |
| | Consequently, a human being's true glory is to persevere in the service of God. | | | Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 4, 25 (Hatvey II, p.184) |
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http://www.geocities.com/hashanayobel/christwrit/irenaeus.htm
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| | Early Teachings on Infant Baptism |
| | For example, infant baptism is assumed in Irenaeus’ writings below (since he affirms both that regeneration happens in baptism, and also that Jesus came so even infants could be regenerated). | | | Since he was born in a Christian home in Smyrna around the year 140, this means he was probably baptized around 140. | | | Consider, too, that Fathers raised in Christian homes (such as Irenaeus) would hardly have upheld infant baptism as apostolic if their own baptisms had been deferred until the age of reason. |
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http://www.catholic.com/library/Early_Teachings_of_Infant_Baptism.asp
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