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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.

them and in Christ Jesus, the Son of God, who because of his surpassing love for that which he had fashioned underwent birth from the Virgin, himself uniting in himself humankind to God, and who suffered under Pontius Pilate and rose and was taken up in glory—who will come in glory as the Saviour of those who are being saved and the judge of those who are being judged and send into eternal fire those who pervert the truth and who despise his Father and his own advent” (Haer. III.4.2). Or, more lapidarily,
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