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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...

(10) The Father of all is far removed from the affections and passions proper to human beings. He is simple, non-composite, not made up of different members, altogether like and equal to Himself, because He is wholly intellect, wholly spirit, wholly mind, wholly thought, wholly reason, wholly hearing, wholly seeing, wholly light, and the whole source of all that is good. That is how men of religion and piety speak of God. But He is above all these properties
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