Irenaeus : life, scripture, legacy /

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Imprint:Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2012.
Description:xv, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8919555
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Other authors / contributors:Parvis, Sara.
Foster, Paul, 1966-
ISBN:9780800697969 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0800697960 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781451424447 (ebook)
1451424442 (ebook)
Notes:Based on a conference held in 2009 at the University of Edinburgh.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Irenaeus and his traditions / Sara Parvis and Paul Foster
  • Part one. Life: Irenaeus and his context
  • Who was Irenaeus? an introduction to the man and his work / Paul Parvis
  • The cultural geography of a Greek Christian: Irenaeus from Smyrna to Lyons / Jared Secord
  • How Irenaeus has misled the archaeologists / Allen Brent
  • Part two. Scripture: Irenaeus and his scriptural traditions
  • The parable of the two sons (Matt. 21: 28-32) in Irenaeus and Codex Bezae / Denis Minns
  • Irenaeus and Hebrews / D. Jeffrey Bingham
  • Irenaeus's contribution to early Christian interpretation of the Song of Songs / Karl Shuve
  • The man with no name: who is the elder in Irenaeus's Adversus haereses IV? / Sebastian Moll
  • The man who needed no introduction: a response to Sebastian Moll / Charles E. Hill
  • Irenaeus and the noncanonical gospels / Paul Foster
  • Irenaeus, the scribes, and the scriptures: papyrological and theological observations from P.Oxy.405 / Charles E. Hill
  • Part three. Legacy: Irenaeus and his theological traditions
  • The heart of Irenaeus's theology / Michael Slusser
  • Irenaeus and the knowledge of God as Father: text and context / Peter Widdicombe
  • "The rule of truth... which he received through baptism" (Haer.I.9.4): catechesis, ritual, and exegesis in Irenaeus's Gaul / Alistair Stewart
  • Irenaeus, women, and tradition / Sara Parvis
  • Irenaeus and the exegetical roots of trinitarian theology / Stephen O. Presley
  • The image of God in Irenaeus, Marcellus, and Eustathius / Sophie Cartwright
  • Packaging Irenaeus: Adversus haereses and its editors / Paul Parvis
  • Tracing the Irenaean legacy / Irenaeus M. C. Steenberg.