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Irenaeus on the Christian Faith: A Condensation of Against Heresies is unavailable, but you can change that!

Irenaeus of Lyons was one of the greatest theologians of the early post-apostolic church. Against Heresies offers a compelling presentation of the Christian faith. Yet, few have read this magnum opus since the first two of its five books focus on exposing and answering Gnostic heresies, and the only complete English version is difficult to read. James Payton has eliminated both these obstacles...

Beyond all this, they appeal to an incredible number of apocryphal and spurious writings6 which they themselves have forged, to bewilder the minds of foolish people and those who do not know the Scriptures of truth.… (1:20,1) The “tradition” they hold about redemption focuses on the invisible and so is incomprehensible.… However, it is impossible to describe their teaching on this simply and in one piece, since each of them hands it down as he sees fit. Consequently, there are as many schemes of
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