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Both Irenaeus and the Valentinians use this verse to argue for their own understandings of the resurrection of the dead. The Valentinians believed that resurrection was a purely spiritual phenomenon, while Irenaeus insisted that Christians would be raised from the dead in fleshly bodies. According to
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As bishop, Irenaeus felt compelled to keep a close eye on the Valentinians and to safeguard the church from them. In order to fulfill this duty, Irenaeus became well informed of Gnostic doctrines and traditions. His studies of Gnosticism eventually led to the compilation of this treatise.
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While many of the Gnostics viewed the material world as flawed and from which believers sought to escape to an eternal realm of spirit, Irenaeus saw creation as good and ultimately destined for glorification. As Mark Jeffrey Olson points out,
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While the Gnostics offered salvation through secret knowledge available only to a few, Irenaeus contended that the true doctrines of the Christian faith are the same taught by bishops in different areas.
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2006 p 73 "But eventually The Detection and Overthrow of Knowledge Falsely So-Called (the actual title of what is commonly known as Against Heresies) expanded from two volumes to five."
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and the Father of Jesus Christ were two different Gods. Irenaeus argues that the same God who sent Jesus to the Earth also led man through history by way of the Jewish law and prophets.
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405 consists of seven fragments written in a small neat uncial hand, which is not later than the first half of the third century, and might be as old as the later part of the second.
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remain today, but many complete copies in Latin, the dates of writing of which remain unknown, still survive. Books IV and V exist in their entirety in a literal version in
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2005 p 123 "Irenaeus recorded the bishops of the Roman church in the third of his five books entitled Detection and Overthrow of Knowledge Falsely So-Called" (
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Book 3: Rebuttal based on apostolic succession and tradition passed down of the faith; defense of the incarnation of Jesus; defense of the virgin birth.
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Showing how that passage of the apostle which the heretics pervert, should be understood; viz., 'Flesh and blood shall not possess the kingdom of God.'
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I tell you this, brethren: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
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Irenaeus argued that orthodox Christianity was passed down to him from the apostles who knew Jesus personally, while the
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misuse of the Bible, IX. refutation by Irenaeus, X. the unity of the church, XI. Valentinus' disciples and others. XII.
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Book 2: A rebuttal of the Gnostic systems employing philosophical arguments primarily rather than employing Scripture.
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Vol.1, p.3, 1992 "the final phrase of the title "knowledge falsely so-called" is found in 1 Timothy 6:20”.
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Irenaeus, this verse was used by the Gnostics to argue that "the handiwork of God is not saved."
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can be dated to sometime between 174 and 189 AD, as the list of the Bishops of Rome includes
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A Journey Through Christian Theology: With Texts from the First to the Twenty-first Century
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Book 4: Demonstration that the God of the Old Testament is the God of the New Testament.
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was to attack sects that deviated from his own form of Christianity, mainly the
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Timeless Truth in the Hands of History: A Short History of System in Theology
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Great Christian Thinkers: From the Early Church Through the Middle Ages
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A study in anti-Gnostic polemics: Irenaeus, Hippolytus, and Epiphanius
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Book 5: A defense of the physical resurrection and eternal judgement.
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Of God and Man: Theology as Anthropology from Irenaeus to Athanasius
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is quoted more than any other verse from the letters of Paul in
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On the Detection and Overthrow of Knowledge Falsely So Called
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In it, Irenaeus identifies and describes several schools of
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The final phrase "of knowledge falsely so-called" (Greek:
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The Politics of Redemption: The Social Logic of Salvation
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Creation and Humanity: The Sources of Christian Theology
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Donovan, Mary Ann (1998). "Irenaeus of Lyons (review)".
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For other early Christian works with similar names, see
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Work of Christian theology written in Greek by Irenaeus
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On the Detection and Overthrow of the So-Called Gnosis
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On the Detection and Overthrow of the So-Called Gnosis
Adversus Haereses

P. Oxyrhynchus 405
Ancient Greek
Christian theology
Greek
Irenaeus
bishop of Lugdunum
Lyon
France
Gnosticism
heresy
orthodox
Christianity
Library of Nag Hammadi
Gnosticism
Pauline epistles
New Testament
canon
1 Clement
The Shepherd of Hermas
Philemon
2 Peter
3 John
Jude
Greek
Armenian
Eleutherius
Victor

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