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 I - DIVINE INTELLECT
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
God is the universal, omnipotent intelligence, from whom nothing is hidden, who knows our needs before we ask him and who shows his goodness and love on every side.
He is all thought, all will, all Intellect, all light, all seeing, all hearing, the fount of all good things.
(1.12.2)For God excels nature, having in himself the will because he is good, the power because he is powerful, and the perfecting because he is rich and perfect.
(2.29.2)One God and father of all who is over all, through all and in all.
(Eph. 4:6)Absolute causality, which for Irenaeus as a Christian must be good, sums up Irenaeus' idea of God.
J. Kunze, Die Gotteslehre des Irenaeus (Leipzig 1891), 32Thy ceaseless, unexhausted love, Unmerited and free …
Throughout the universe it reigns, Unalterably sure;
And while the truth of God remains, The goodness must endure.
Hymn of Charles Wesley- Type
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- Irenaeus of Lyons , pp. 25 - 26Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001