The treatise of Irenæus of Lugdunum against the heresies; a translation of the principal passages, w

Ken McGuire
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edited November 2024 in English Forum

Irenaeus' magnum opus, his "Against Heresies" is one of the first theological classics.  Many of his concerns are with us today, and many theologians of today have learned quite a bit from him.

But the actual five books against heresies are a bit rambling, and long winded, at least to us.  And so there have been a few treatments of this work that try to abbreviate it for today's reader.

One of those editions was by F.R. Montgomery Hitchcock, published in the United Kingdom almost a hundred years ago.  On the one hand, he creates a quite readable version.  On the other hand, when this was created, we had yet to find the actual gnostic writings which Irenaeus wrote against - something that is not true now, and so in some ways the notes are quite dated.  On the other hand, the notes bring Irenaeus' voice into the modern world - reacting against Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Mary Baker Eddy, etc.

When I saw that it was St. Irenaeus day last week, I went back to revisit this PB project that had been sitting in a quite partial state for months.  It is volume 1 of 2, but I make no promises about when or if I will get around to the 2nd volume.

Source is http://archive.org/details/treatiseofiren01iren . In the original, the footnotes were numbered by page.  I started trying to reproduce this, but ended up just restarting with each book.

SDG

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