Search results
People also ask
When did Irenaeus write Against Heresies?
When was Against Heresies written?
What does Against Heresies mean?
What did Irenaeus do?
The earliest manuscript fragment of Against Heresies, P. Oxy. 405, dates to around 200 AD. Irenaeus' primary goal in writing Against Heresies was to attack cults that fell away from orthodox Christianity, mainly the Gnostics and Marcionites.
In St. Irenaeus: Irenaeus’s writings: conflict with the gnostics …written in Greek about 180, Against Heresies is now known in its entirety only in a Latin translation, the date of which is disputed (200 or 400?).
Irenaeus of Lyons wrote his Against Heresies c. 175-185 CE. His work is invaluable to modern scholarship in the attempt to recover the content of Gnostic teachings in the second century. Irenaeus also provides the first explicit witness to a four-fold gospel canon.
Originally written in Greek about 180, Against Heresies is now known in its entirety only in a Latin translation, the date of which is disputed (200 or 400?). A shorter work by Irenaeus, Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching , also written in Greek, is extant only in an Armenian translation probably intended for the instruction of young ...
- Gustaf Wingren
Against Heresies. Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson. Table of Contents. Book I. Preface. Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 ...
Chapter 8 Created things are not a shadow of the Pleroma. Chapter 9 There is but one Creator of the world, God the Father: this the constant belief of the Church. Chapter 10 Perverse interpretations of Scripture by the heretics: God created all things out of nothing, and not from pre-existent matter.
Nov 11, 2023 · English-language translations of. Ἔλεγχος καὶ ἀνατροπὴ τῆς ψευδωνύμου γνώσεως (Against Heresies) (c. 180) by Irenaeus. →. Against Heresies is a book by Irenaeus, bishop of Lugdunum (modern Lyon, France), cataloguing and critiquing a range of Christian groups that he deemed heretical.
