Irenaeus of Lyon, Saint Augustine, and the Theory of Evolution (Part 6)
In the past five posts, I have been discussing Irenaeus of Lyon, an early Church Father from the second century, and his claim that the earliest Church saw Adam...
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Irenaeus of Lyon: Adam, Christ, and the Christian Life (Part 5)
In his article “Our Hearts of Darkness: Original Sin Revisited,” in Theological Studies 49 (1988) (597-621), Father Stephen J. Duffy sums up Irenaeus’ teaching ...
Irenaeus of Lyons: There’s No “Plan B” in Christ–He is it, the Alpha and Omega (Part 4)
In order to understand what Irenaeus was driving at by emphasizing that Adam and Eve were children, you need to first understand that Irenaeus saw Christ as tru...
Irenaeus of Lyon: Adam and Eve as Children, and the Greek Philosophical Concepts of Becoming and Being (Part 3)
As I mentioned in the earlier posts, Irenaeus taught that Adam and Eve were essentially children. Such an understanding relates to the very way Irenaeus underst...
Irenaeus of Lyon: Heretics, Ken Ham, and the Proper Understanding of Adam and Eve (Part 2)
So what did Irenaeus believe about Adam and Eve? Or more properly, what does Irenaeus tell us about what the view of the early Church was concerning Adam and Ev...
Irenaeus of Lyon, and the Early Church’s Teaching of Adam and Eve (Part 1)
Over the past year and a half, I have been doing quite a lot research and writing about the young earth creationist movement of Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis. ...