Godly lives by Behr, J, Behr, John

“…<p>This thesis aims to restore the balance of modern investigations into Christian asceticism and anthropology by reading the texts of Sts. Irenaeus and Clement within their theological perspectives, and thereby examine the presuppositions determining how we think about sexual difference. …”

How the body of Lazarus helps to solve a Pauline problem by Strawbridge, J

“…Consequently, early Christian writers such as Irenaeus, Tertullian, and Augustine engaged other New Testament texts such as John 11 in order to subvert the claim of 1 Cor 15.50 and develop their argument for fleshly resurrection. …”

The Consistency Principle As Realised in the Early Church Catechism by Alexandra Budanova

“…The article provides definitions of the principle and arguments in support of its significance and relevance based on writings by the Church Fathers such as St Irenaeus of Lyons, St Hyppolytus of Rome, St Cyril of Jerusalem, St John Chrysostom, St Ambrose of Milan and St Augustine, as well as by the Doctors of the Church such as Tertullian, Origen and Clement of Alexandria. …”
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The ways that parted in the library: the Gospels according to Matthew and according to the Hebrews in Late Ancient Heresiology by Coogan, J

“…This article traces how early Christian thinkers (including Irenaeus, Eusebius, Epiphanius, and Jerome) conceptualised ‘Jewishness’ in bibliographic terms. …”

„Związać mocarza”: starcie Jezusa i Belzebuba. Starożytna egzegeza Mt 12, 29 oraz tekstów paralelnych by Agnieszka Bastit-Kalinowska

“…The victory of the Saviour over evil is interpreted as the result of a cosmic fight (Origen) or as the merciful redemption of the human being and his restoration and vivification by the Holy Spirit (Irenaeus). …”
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Taking up Armour: The challenges of early Christian exegesis of Ephesians by Strawbridge, J

“…With a focus on the early Christian writings of Irenaeus, Tertullian, Origen, and Eusebius, as well as modern interpreters such as Gustav Aulén, Walter Wink, and Thomas Neufeld, questions about divine and human agency and the identity of spiritual forces of wickedness (Eph. 6:12) are engaged. …”

Meddling with the Gospel: Celsus, Early Christian Textuality, and the politics of reading by Coogan, J

“…Christian thinkers in the second and third centuries—including Irenaeus, Tertullian, Hippolytus, and Origen—also participate in this discourse about good and bad readers. …”

Three comments on late antiquity history by Milin Milena L.

“…On terms Ecclesia and catholica in Early Christian texts from Sirmium The term Ecclesia catholica is found at the end of Passion of St. Irenaeus (executed in AD 304), in his prayer (cf. above, p. 6, with note 15). …”
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Początki chrześcijańskiego tekstu Pisma Świętego by Janusz Królikowski

“…Furthermore, such an approach allowed him to look favourably on extra-Biblical tradition and recognise it as a preparation for the incarnation of the Eternal Word. Saint Irenaeus in his approach to the text of the Bible appreciated the divine origin and inspiration which decides about its superiority and universa­lism. …”
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Van Wyk se bespreking van my boek: <i>God, waarom lyk die wêreld so</i>? by A. König

“…Hy meld egter nie dat ek direk en doelbewus by Irenaeus aansluit nie (176-179), iets wat ek vroeër al in ’n boekie oor die versoeningsleer gedoen het (Versoening – Goedkoop? …”
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Reading (in) a quadriform cosmos: Gospel Books in the Early Christian bibliographic imagination by Coogan, J

“…Employing interlocking concepts from the disciplines of meteorology, geography, music, mathematics, and astronomy, a number of figures&#x2014;including Irenaeus, Origen, Ephrem, Eusebius, Fortunatianus, Augustine, and Maximus&#x2014;imagined a Gospel corpus consisting of precisely four texts. …”

Ordering Gospel textuality in the second century by Coogan, J, Rodriguez, J

“…Focusing on approaches to Gospel plurality visible in the Epistula apostolorum, Tatian the Syrian, Irenaeus of Lyons, and Ammonius of Alexandria, we argue that a number of Christian readers&#x2014;across the Roman Mediterranean, from Alexandria to Gaul and from Syria to Rome&#x2014;employed similar approaches. …”

Marek Gnostyk, Kain i fałszerze prawdy. Wątek ojcostwa szatana w polemikach antyheretyckich II wieku by Tomasz Dekert

“…The reconstruction of these dimensions will be made on the basis of the speech against Mark the Gnostic which was delivered by an un­known (probably Asiatic) presbyter and preserved in the first book of Adversus haereses (15.6) of Irenaeus of Lyons. In the opinion of the author of this paper, naming heretics as children of Satan has its source in the targumic and midrashic interpretation of Gen 4.1, according to which Cain was not the child of Adam but of the Satan-serpent. …”
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Abandoning Penal Substitution: A Patristic Inspiration for Contemporary Protestant Understanding of the Atonement by Sergey Koryakin

“…Firmly grounded in patristic thought (esp. Irenaeus of Lyons), this understanding of the work of Christ was first studied and formulated by a Swedish Lutheran, Gustaf Aulén, in 1931. …”
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Św. Piotr biskupem Rzymu? by Jerzy Pałucki

“…The first writers who start to describe Peter as the Bishop of Rome are Tertullian and Cyprian, who teaches that the Bishop’s authority is like the Apostles’ authority and uses the term cathedra Petri referring to Rome. Although Saint Irenaeus attributes the foundation of the Roman Church to Peter and Paul, in the course of years, especially after the transfer of the Capital of the Empire to Constantinople, he also puts the name of Peter at the top of the list of Roman Bishops. …”
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Toward a Natural Theology of Abundance: Reorientation to a Sacramental Reality by Annalea Rose Thiessen

“…More than a descriptive, historical account, the paper is primarily a conceptual presentation that retrieves the historically early thought of Irenaeus of Lyons and Athanasius of Alexandria to argue for a theological account of sacramental reality. …”
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Wypowiedzi Ojców Kościoła na temat wiary w interpretacji papieża Franciszka w encyklice "Lumen fidei" by Bogdan Czyżewski

“…Augustine (11 times), St. Irenaeus of Lyons (3 times), St. Justin and Origen (each 2 times) and the Epistle of Barnabas, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, St. …”
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Ciało złe i dobre. Kwestia pochodzenia i natury ciała Adama i Chrystusa we wczesnochrześcijańskich ruchach heretyckich by Mariusz Szram

“… The article expounds on the groundwork laid by the first Latin treaty De haeresibus by Philastrius, the fourth-century bishop of Brescia, analyzed on the background of writings of Irenaeus, Tertullian and Origen, how the rooted in Gnosticism representatives of early Christian heresies (Carpocratians, Saturninus, Valentinus, Apelles, Marcion, Manicheans) have comprehended the genesis of man’s body. …”
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How to perform a Lumbar Puncture by Clarence Mwelwa Patrick Chikusu

“…The first reports of a lumbar puncture (LP) being undertaken are from the late 19th century [1]. Heinrich Irenaeus Quince (with whom the Lumbar Puncture is commonly associated with) reported to the tenth congress of Internal Medicine in April 1891­­ that he had performed in one case 3 lumbar punctures in a patient with suspected tuberculous meningitis who was comatose [1,2]. …”
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The Agencies of God’s Word and Spirit: Modern Science as a “Sacred Reminder” by Christopher Barina Kaiser

“…A review of the theology of Irenaeus shows that these distinctions in biblical imagery were developed in the early Church and played an important role in early Trinitarian theology.…”
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