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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.
Against Heresies. Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.
Nov 11, 2023 · 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. Its full Greek title is "On the Detection and Overthrow of the So-Called Gnosis".
The classic source for ancient controversies regarding groups conventionally classified as gnostic is Adversus haereses (Latin: “Against Heresies”), a five-volume work written in Greek about 180 ce by the Christian bishop Irenaeus of Lyon.
Summary. Originally printed in 1885, the ten-volume set, Ante-Nicene Fathers, brings together the work of early Christian thinkers. In particular, it brings together the writings of the early Church fathers prior to the fourth century Nicene Creed.
1. They maintain, then, that in the invisible and ineffable heights above there exists a certain perfect, pre-existent Aeon, whom they call Proarche, Propator, and Bythus, and describe as being invisible and incomprehensible. Eternal and unbegotten, he remained throughout innumerable cycles of ages in profound serenity and quiescence.
Introductory Note to Irenæus against Heresies. Against Heresies — Irenæus. Footnotes: [a.d. 120-202.] This history introduces us to the Church in her Western outposts. We reach the banks of the Rhone, where for nearly a century Christian missions have flourished.
