Irenaeus

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Greek theologian who was bishop of Lyons and an antiheretical writer

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The Sacred history conjectured by Ireneus was different.
Lakmann follow with an historical overview of the doctrine of Ideas that departs from philological considerations to subsequently present major figures influenced by Plato, from the ancient Academy through the Imperial era to Philo and Christian speculators such as Justin, Tertullian, Ireneus, Athenagoras, Origin, Clement of Alexandria, and Augustine (pp.
Ireneus of Lion Information and Consulting Center, suggested that the status of several registered religious organizations in the country, the Hare Krishnas, Scientologists, and the Unification Church in particular, be reviewed in that they should be banned.
examines the positions of Ireneus, Origen, Gregory of Nyssa, and Augustine on the visibility of God and the function of image or representation in knowing or encountering the Divine.
(51.) Ireneus nostrae Lugdunensis Galliae famosus episcopus et martyr, in Peter the Venerable, PL 189:665.
Tertullian of North Africa, Justin Martyr in Rome, Ireneus in present-day France, Clement and Origen of Hellenistic Alexandria, Theophilus of Syrian Antioch and their theological struggles are described, not in abstraction but in the light of cultural and social or political factors.
And the most prolific of Christian apologists, Ireneus, the Orthodox Bishop of Lyons, declared that heretics claimed they possessed more gospels than there really are.