When the Christian church was first forming in the time of the apostles, a heresy that still threatens the church today called Gnosticism started to form.
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"Against Heresies - Book IV" from Irenaeus. Bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul (-202A.D.).
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In this book, quotations from Saint Irenaeus have been arranged thematically in order to show the unity of his Christian view of the world.
This volume eliminates both these obstacles. James Payton has condensed Against Heresies by cutting out most of the interaction with the Gnostics, allowing Irenaeus' rich presentation on the Christian faith to shine through.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
In The Great Heresies, Hilaire Belloc takes the reader on a fast and furious tour of European history seen through the lens of its chief religious conflicts - Arianism, 'Mohammedanism' (Islam), Albigensianism, the Reformation, and what he ...
Moore’s narrative focuses on the motives and anxieties of elites who waged war on heresy for political gain.
In this work Against the Heresies, he was the first to utilize the full range of apostolic writings in his controversy with the Gnostics and others.