Irenaeus on creation the cosmic Christ and the saga of redemption /
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
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| Series: | Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ;
v. 91. |
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Table of Contents:
- Creation and the life of the human race : the contours of Irenaeus' cosmic anthropology
- Comparative sources : the gnostics
- Contemporary Christian sources : Justin and Theophilus Jewish sources
- Creation's stage : the background to Irenaeus' protology: the motivation and cause of creation
- Contemporary interpretations of creation and motivation
- Irenaeus on the motivation for creation
- The creator's untrammelled power : a doctrine of creation ex nihilo
- Creation ex nihilo in the broader theological milieu
- Irenaeus' developments creation ex nihilo clarified in Christ
- Chiliasm : reading the beginning through the end and the end through the beginning
- The work of his hands : the creation of the cosmos
- 'Trinity'? Creation as an act of Father, Son, and Spirit
- A triune act-three roles in creation
- Distinguishing the creative work
- The 'hands' of the Father
- A 'timeline' of creation
- The days of creation and the beginning of redemption
- Days that lead to growth : 'increase and multiply'
- Recapitulation, and a definition of history
- Dust and life : the creation of the human person
- The triune creation of humanity
- The untilled earth and the constitution of the human person
- the creature wrought of dust and breath : the composition of the human formation
- Four categories of incarnational reading
- God and not angels created the human handiwork
- Christ's birth and human nature
- The material aspect of humanity's being as a creature of flesh
- The human-shaped soul : man's immortal element in relation to the Holy Spirit
- From dust and breath to living image
- The paradise of humankind
- Humanity's relationship to the cosmos
- Humanity's social context : the relationship of Adam and Eve
- History transformed : humanity's transgression
- The tree and the prohibition
- The nature of the prohibition : protection from knowledge misused
- The relationship of knowledge and obedience
- The dynamic of maturing knowledge and responsibility
- A prohibition but not a test
- The fall of knowledge and knowing
- The question of humanity's fall
- The devil and the deception of the human child
- The devil's motivation
- The nature and the accomplishment of the deceit
- The response to sin: humankind
- The opening of humanity's eyes : awareness and reaction
- Humanity's fight and confrontation with God
- The response to sin : God
- The curse
- The clothing and the expulsion from paradise
- Stumbling to perfection : life after Eden
- Cain and Abel, and the internalisation of transgression
- Enoch, Noah and the deluge
- The descendents of Noah and the future of the race
- The Tower of Babel and the distribution of races.