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The Scandal of the Incarnation: Irenaeus Against the Heresies is unavailable, but you can change that!

Saint Irenaeus was the first great Christian theologian. Born in Asia Minor in about 130 AD, he became bishop of Lyons and died as a martyr early in the third century. His main work, Adversus Haereses (Against the Heresies), is as relevant today as it was 1,800 years ago. It is a critique of Gnosticism, the “anti-body” heresy, which continues to flourish as the main threat to the Christian faith...

the Hands of God [the Son and the Spirit], to whom the Father said, ‘Let us make man in our image and likeness’ (Gen. 1:26). That is why, at the end, ‘not by the will of the flesh or the will of a man’, but by the good pleasure of the Father, the Hands of God made the living Man, so that Adam might come into the image and likeness of God. V 1, 3
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