Scandal of the Incarnation: Irenaeus Against the Heresies

by Irenaeus of Lyons

Book Overview

Saint Irenaeus was the first great Christian theologian. Born in Asia Minor in about 130 A.D., he became Bishop of Lyons and died as a martyr early in the third century. His main work, Adversus Haereses (Against the Heresies), is as relevant today as it was eighteen hundred years ago. It is a critique of Gnosticism, the 'anti-body' heresy, which, far from dying out, continues to flourish as the main threat to the Christian faith in our own...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898703158
• ISBN13: 9780898703153
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Ignatius Press
• Length: 117 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.0"