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By focusing upon Irenaeus’ defense of the Catholic or Orthodox position, this volume provides a needed balance to the mass of Gnostic scholarship produced since the publication of the Nag Hammadi texts. This is a fresh look, sympathetic but critical, at Irenaeus’ development of an anti-gnostic position, calling attention to the importance of his biblical interpretation, especially of Paul’s letters. It also adds an important supplement to the study of a crucial theological theme: the Kingdom of God, showing that the early church, or at least Irenaeus, continued to preach about the “kingdom of God” as a theological theme of first importance. Other Religion-Patristics & Early Christianity Books 1989 – A COMPARISON BETWEEN A KING AND A MONK / AGAINST THE OPPONENTS OF THE MONASTIC LIFE: Two Treatises by John Chrysostrom 2002 – Tropes and Sequences in the Liturgy of the Church in Piacenza in the Twelfth Century: An Analysis and an Edition of the Texts 2004 – An Exegesis of Apostasy embedded in Johns Narratives of Peter and Judas against the Synoptic Parallels
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