Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Irenaeus: argument and imagery
- Part I DIVINE INTELLECT
- Part II ECONOMY
- Part III RECAPITULATION
- Part IV PARTICIPATION
- Part V CONCLUSION
- Appendix: Gnosticism
- Select bibliography
- Citations from Irenaeus
- Citations from the bible
- Index of classical authors
- Index of patristic authors
- General index
Part V - CONCLUSION
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Irenaeus: argument and imagery
- Part I DIVINE INTELLECT
- Part II ECONOMY
- Part III RECAPITULATION
- Part IV PARTICIPATION
- Part V CONCLUSION
- Appendix: Gnosticism
- Select bibliography
- Citations from Irenaeus
- Citations from the bible
- Index of classical authors
- Index of patristic authors
- General index
Summary
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience.
T. S. Eliot, Selected Essays, 1917–1932For none is perfect but the uncreated who is God. As far as man is concerned, he must be created and when created he must receive growth, and having grown he must become adult, and being adult he must abound, and having abounded he must grow strong, and having grown strong he must be glorified, and being glorified he must see his lord: for it is God who must one day be seen and the vision of God produces immortality and ‘immortality brings one close to God’ (Wisdom 6:19).
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- Irenaeus of Lyons , pp. 249 - 250Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001