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Champion of martyrs, scourge of heretics, erudite theologian, shrewd politician—no account of early Christianity is complete without careful consideration of Irenaeus of Lyons. Here a team of international scholars examines aspects of the saint’s life, historical context, engagement with Scripture, and his ecclesiastical and theological legacy for succeeding generations.

Irenaeus is the star witness of the post-sub-apostolic period of early Christianity, the period of the late second century. By then, not only were the eyewitnesses, the generation that had known Jesus, dead, but so also were the generation that had known the apostles. Irenaeus himself, who became bishop of Lyons in Gaul in the late 170s or early 180s, was one of the last Christian writers who could plausibly claim to have learned
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