Irenaeus of Lyons.
Eric Osborn's book presents a major study of Irenaeus (125-200), bishop of Lyons.
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2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- REFERENCES TO IRENAEUS
- CHAPTER 1 Irenaeus: argument and imagery
- 1.1 LIFE AND WORK
- 1.2 IRENAEUS PHILOSOPHUS?
- 1.3 THE UNEXPECTED JUNGLE
- 1.4 SOURCE CRITICISM AND CONCEPTUAL BANKRUPTCY
- 1.5 CONTENT, CONTOUR AND CONFLICT
- 1.6 TRUTH AND BEAUTY: THE TWO CRITERIA
- 1.7 THE FOUR CONCEPTS
- 1.8 ARGUMENT AND IMAGES
- PART I Divine Intellect
- CHAPTER 2 One God: Intellect and love
- 2.1 ATTRIBUTES OF GOD: FROM OPULENCE TO OMNIPRESENCE
- 2.2 METAPHYSIC OF MIND
- 2.3 DIVINE INTELLECT IN IRENAEUS
- Indivisibility and simultaneity
- Sovereignty and homogeneity
- Entirety and identity
- Finality and generosity of the divine economy
- 2.4 PLOTINUS
- 2.5 KNOWLEDGE, LOVE AND UNITY OF THE DIVINE INTELLECT
- PART II Economy
- CHAPTER 3 One creator: ut sapiens architectus et maximus rex
- 3.1 TWO ANALOGIES - WISE ARCHITECT AND SOVEREIGN KING
- 3.2.1 SOVEREIGN KING
- 3.2.2 ENCLOSING, NOT ENCLOSED
- 3.2.3 ONE CREATOR, NO REGRESS
- 3.3.1 WISE ARCHITECT - WORD AND PLAN
- 3.3.2 WISE ARCHITECT - THE CONFIGURATION OF CREATED THINGS
- 3.4 PLOTINUS' ARGUMENT FOR A GOOD CREATOR
- 3.5 GOD NEEDS NOTHING
- 3.6.1 CREATIO EX NIHILO: CONCEPT WITHOUT FORMULA (JUSTIN)
- 3.6.2 CREATIO EX NIHILO: FORMULA WITHOUT CONCEPT (BASILIDES)
- 3.6.3 CREATIO EX NIHILO: FORMULA AND CONCEPT (IRENAEUS)
- 3.7 IMMEDIACY
- CHAPTER 4 Economy: God as architect of time
- 4.1 ECONOMY AND DIVINE ARCHITECT
- 4.2.1 ECONOMY AS ACCUSTOMING
- 4.2.2 ECONOMY AS PROGRESSIVE REVELATION
- 4.2.3 ECONOMY AS THE ASCENT OF MAN
- 4.2.4 ECONOMY AS POLEMIC: HISTORY AS KNOWLEDGE
- 4.3 TRINITY AND THE HANDS OF GOD
- 4.4 RIVER AND MOVEMENT
- PART III Recapitulation
- CHAPTER 5 Recapitulation: correction and perfection
- 5.1 RECAPITULATION, A COMPLEX CONCEPT
- 5.2 CORRECTION.
- Obedience
- Liberation from slavery
- Salvation from corruption
- Reconciliation through the cross
- 5.3.1 PERFECTION OF BEING
- The perfect being of Christ is exclusive
- The perfect being of Christ is inclusive
- How does perfect being achieve mankind's salvation?
- 5.3.2 JOY IN TRUTH
- PERFECTION OF TRUTH
- Truth is exclusive
- Truth is inclusive
- 5.3.3 PERFECTION OF GOODNESS
- 5.4.1 CHRISTOLOGY: TWO ADAMS
- 5.4.2 WORD OF GOD
- 5.4.3 ONE MEDIATOR
- 5.4.4 FATHER AND SON
- 5.4.5 THE NAME
- 5.5 THE TOTALITY OF RECAPITULATION
- CHAPTER 6 Recapitulation: inauguration and consummation
- 6.1.1 INAUGURATION OF NEW LIFE
- 6.1.2 LIFE THROUGH THE CROSS
- 6.2.1 CHRIST AS HEAD AND CORNERSTONE
- 6.2.2 THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH
- 6.3 THE ECONOMY OF APOSTOLIC TRUTH
- 6.4 NEW WAY OF LIFE
- 6.5 BAPTISM, EUCHARIST AND MINISTRY
- 6.6.1 CONSUMMATION: ONE GOD ALONE WILL REIGN
- 6.6.2 WHEN CHRIST SHALL COME AGAIN
- 6.6.3 RESURRECTION
- 6.6.4 COMMUNION AND SEPARATION
- 6.6.5 ANTICHRIST AND CHILIASM
- PART IV Participation
- CHAPTER 7 Logic and the rule of truth: participation in truth
- 7.1 CANON AND CRITERION
- 7.2 COMPENDIUM OF TRUTH
- 7.3 CHARISMA AND TRUTH
- 7.4 WHAT DOES THE RULE SAY?
- 7.5 CONVERSION, RECOVERY OF REASON, FAITH AND SIGHT
- 7.6.1 HERESY
- 7.6.2 CONTEMPORARY ASSESSMENT
- 7.6.3 SOPHISTRY
- 7.7 PARODY: THEOLOGY FOR HORSES
- 7.8 CONSONANTIA
- CHAPTER 8 Scripture as mind and will of God: participation in truth
- 8.1.1 FROM PROPHETIC SPIRIT TO ETERNAL WORD
- Prophetic spirit
- Word of God
- Word of men
- Words of Jesus
- 8.1.2 MIND AND WILL OF GOD
- 8.1.3 PROPHECY: FROM PREDICTION TO PRESENCE
- 8.1.4 A REBIRTH OF IMAGES
- 8.2.1 THE UNITY AND TRUTH OF SCRIPTURE
- 8.2.2 SCRIPTURE AND TRADITION
- 8.2.3 PRINCIPLES OF INTERPRETATION
- 8.4 IMAGES OF THE ECONOMY: THE FOUR GOSPELS.
- 8.5.1 FORMATION OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE
- 8.5.2 CANON OF SCRIPTURE
- 8.6.1 TYPOLOGY AND TRUTH
- 8.6.2 TYPOLOGY AND ECONOMY
- 8.7 JOHN
- 8.8 PAUL
- CHAPTER 9 Aesthetics: participation in beauty
- 9.1 PERSISTENCE OF AESTHETICS
- 9.2 A THEOLOGICAL AESTHETIC?
- 9.3 ART AND AESTHETICS IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY
- 9.4 MANIFESTATION, VISION AND PARTICIPATION
- 9.5.1 GLORY
- 9.5.2 CRITICISM AND DIFFICULTIES
- 9.6 THE LIMITS OF BEAUTY
- CHAPTER 10 Human growth from creation to resurrection: participation in life
- 10.1.1 IMAGE AND LIKENESS: THE PUZZLE
- 10.1.2 IMAGE AND LIKENESS: INSEPARABLE CONJUNCTION
- 10.1.3 IMAGE AND LIKENESS: DISJUNCTION
- 10.1.4 SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEM: FANTINO AND SESBÜÉ
- 10.2.1 SIN AND FALL, ORIGINAL SIN
- 10.2.2 PERFECTION OF ADAM
- 10.3.1 UNITY OF MAN AS BODY, SOUL AND SPIRIT
- 10.3.2 BREATH OF LIFE
- 10.4.1 SPIRIT TRANSFORMS FLESH INTO INCORRUPTION
- 10.4.2 STRENGTH MADE PERFECT IN WEAKNESS
- 10.4.3 FLESH AND GLORY
- 10.5 GROWTH THROUGH PARTICIPATION
- CHAPTER 11 Goodness and truth: ethics of participation
- 11.1.1 FREE WILL AND FREEDOM
- 11.1.2 HORIZONS OF FREEDOM
- 11.2.1 LOVE OF TRUTH
- 11.2.2 LOVE AND NATURAL LAW
- 11.2.3 LUSTS OF THE FLESH
- 11.3 MARTYRDOM
- 11.4 ETHICS AND PARTICIPATION
- 11.5 LOVE OF ENEMIES AS CRUX OF RECAPITULATION
- PART V Conclusion
- CHAPTER 12 The glory of God and man
- 12.1 HUMANISM: SAVING THE SELF
- 12.2 TWO CRITERIA: ARGUMENT AND IMAGERY
- 12.3.1 OPTIMISM AND GROWTH THROUGH PARTICIPATION
- 12.3.2 PARTICIPATION AND EXCHANGE
- 12.4 THE IMMEDIACY OF GOD
- Appendix: Gnosticism
- GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
- SCHOOLS OF PHILOSOPHY?
- WAS VALENTINUS A GNOSTIC?
- IRENAEUS' ACCOUNT OF VALENTINIAN GNOSTICISM (1 . 1 -8 )
- (a) The first principle and first emanations
- (b) The passion of Sophia and the new emanations
- (c) The formation of Achamoth.
- (d) Three substances
- (e) Creation of the cosmos
- (f) The Christ and the consummation
- Select bibliography
- TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS
- REFERENCE WORKS
- Citations from Irenaeus
- Citations from the bible
- Index of classical authors
- Index of patristic authors
- General index.