Irenaeus

24 Irenaeus: Life, Scripture, Legacy sympathies and deep pastoral concern, firmly rooted in the traditions of his native Asia bu ...

25 ChAPtER twO The Cultural Geography of a Greek Christian Irenaeus from Smyrna to Lyons Jared Secord S een within a broader con ...

26 Irenaeus: Life, Scripture, Legacy display in the Adversus haereses, though in several cases the sources of his knowledge seem ...

Secord—The Cultural Geography of a Greek Christian 27 The movement west continues, and Irenaeus follows the apostles as they fou ...

28 Irenaeus: Life, Scripture, Legacy he invented.^28 Philostratus recognizes the potential difficulty eastern readers could have ...

Secord—The Cultural Geography of a Greek Christian 29 With all of this in mind, I suggest that Irenaeus’s “middle regions of the ...

30 Irenaeus: Life, Scripture, Legacy Instead, what requires commentary is the βάρβαρον διάλεκτον with which Irenaeus is busy mos ...

Secord—The Cultural Geography of a Greek Christian 31 evidence for the occasional presence of Greek actors and orators at Lyons, ...

32 Irenaeus: Life, Scripture, Legacy Christian community at Lyons seem to have been urban in character—the persecu- tion began b ...

Secord—The Cultural Geography of a Greek Christian 33 Still, as I have argued above, Irenaeus seems to have missed his time in w ...

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35 ChAPtER thREE How Irenaeus Has Misled the Archaeologists Allen Brent T he anonymous author of the Elenchos, a work clearly in ...

36 Irenaeus: Life, Scripture, Legacy If Irenaeus is to be regarded as the ideologue of Victor’s revolution, it seems strange tha ...

Brent—How Irenaeus Has Misled the Archaeologists 37 It can mean “I composed a succession list” of names “up until the time of A ...

38 Irenaeus: Life, Scripture, Legacy “disciples” and not “apostles” and commenting upon the scene in the Gospels when Jesus was ...

Brent—How Irenaeus Has Misled the Archaeologists 39 with the “ministry of episcopal oversight [τὴν τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς λειτουργίαν],” ...

40 Irenaeus: Life, Scripture, Legacy in terms that were clearly practically interchangeable: both terms clearly emphasize differ ...

Brent—How Irenaeus Has Misled the Archaeologists 41 was a model that Diogenes Laertius was to use around twenty years later, in ...

42 Irenaeus: Life, Scripture, Legacy But it would be well if the others would co-operate with him.”^34 It is not accidental that ...

Brent—How Irenaeus Has Misled the Archaeologists 43 group whose διαδοχή was from Greek philosophy that he was taking “refuge in ...