{"title":"St. Irenaeus of Lyons","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"on-the-apostolic-preaching","title":"On the Apostolic Preaching","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSVS Press Popular Patristics Series #17\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSt Irenaeus, undisputedly the most important theologian of the second century, laid a firmer foundation for all future Christian thinkers. Both in his work,åÊ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgainst the Heresies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eåÊand in this present study,åÊ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDemonstration of the Apostolic Preaching\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, St Irenaeus explains that there is but one God, made known to the human race by His one Son, Jesus Christ, through the one Holy Spirit; and this one God brings His creatures made from mud into intimate communion with Himself. Writing in an age not unlike our own, among a plethora of religions and diverse gods, he exhorts his readers to hold fast to Scripture, which recounts the deeds that bring them into the covenant established by God.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis version ofåÊ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDemonstration of the Apostolic Preaching\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, translated from the Armenian, clearly and simply introduces this crucial work by a church father whose christocentric exegesis produced the key that unlocked scriptural understanding for his contemporaries and for us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJohn Behr, translator.åÊ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Vladimir's Seminary Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":721099247,"sku":"9780881411744","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0494\/6593\/products\/iren_apos.gif?v=1403204637"},{"product_id":"irenaeus-of-lyons-identifying-christianity","title":"Irenaeus of Lyons: Identifying Christianity","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"extraProductInfoTxtBookFeatureGroup\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"extraProductInfoTxtBookFeatureGroup\" data-csa-c-id=\"q4pore-7xtwdh-kw2r57-5q2glk\" data-cel-widget=\"extraProductInfoTxtBookFeatureGroup\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-row\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; width: 935.896px;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-declarative\" data-action=\"show-all-offers-display\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-func-deps=\"aui-da-show-all-offers-display\" data-show-all-offers-display=\"{}\" data-csa-c-id=\"wfnixc-j7fyef-4qhao3-winxkt\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-id=\"cqxxrn-4hrwas-6x9hh1-7w9jo8\" data-cel-widget=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; width: 935.896px; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 10px !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"140\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; width: 935.896px; margin-bottom: 12px !important; overflow: hidden; position: relative; max-height: none; height: auto;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; position: relative; padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThis book provides a full, contextual study of St Irenaeus of Lyons, the first great theologian of the Christian tradition. John Behr sets Irenaeus both within his own context of the second century, a fundamental period for the formation of Christian identity, elaborating the distinction\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003ebetween orthodoxy and heresy and expounding a comprehensive theological vision, and also within our own contemporary context, in which these issues are very much alive again. Against the commonly-held position that 'orthodoxy' was established by excluding others, the 'heretics', Behr argues that it was the self-chosen separation of the heretics that provided the occasion for those who remained together to clarify the lineaments of their faith in a church that was catholic by virtue of embracing different voices in a symphony of many voices and whose chief architect was Irenaeus, who, as befits his name, urged peace and toleration.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; position: relative; padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThe first chapter explores Irenaeus' background in Asia Minor, as a disciple of Polycarp of Smyrna, his activity in Gaul, and his involvement with the Christian communities in Rome. The theological and institutional significance of his interventions is made clear by tracing the coalescence of the\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003einitially fractionated communities in Rome into a united body over the first two centuries.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; position: relative; padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThe second chapter provides a full examination of Irenaeus' surviving writings, concentrating especially on the literary and rhetorical structure of his five books \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;\"\u003eAgainst the Heresies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e, his 'refutation and overthrowal' of his opponents in the first two books, and his establishing a framework for\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003earticulating orthodoxy.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; position: relative; padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThe final chapter explores the theological vision of Irenaeus itself, on its own terms rather than the categories of later dogmatic theology, grounded in an apostolic reading of Scripture and presenting a vibrant and vigorous account of the diachronic and synchronic economy or plan of God, seen\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003ethrough the work of Christ which reveals how the Hands of God have been at work from the beginning, fashioning the creature, made from mud and animated with a breath of life, into his own image and likeness, vivified by the Holy Spirit, to become a 'living human being, the glory of God'.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43486451990774,"sku":"9780199214631","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0494\/6593\/products\/41uIAAiUtNL._SX316_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1652281976"}],"url":"https:\/\/holycrossbookstore.com\/collections\/st-irenaeus-of-lyons.oembed","provider":"Holy Cross Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}