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The Living Irenaeus of Lyons: A Blog Series on Against Heresies (Part 5: An Overview of the “Gnostic Bench”)
In this fifth post in my book analysis of Irenaeus’ Against Heresies, I want to cover 1.24-31. In these chapters, Irenaeus provides his readers with a bird’s ey...
The Living Irenaeus of Lyons: A Blog Series on Against Heresies (Part 4: Let’s Mock Heretics! And Let’s Admit Some Things Never Change)
Throughout Part 1 of Against Heresies, Irenaeus gives long, detailed, and extremely confusing explanations of all the teachings of the various Gnostic heretical...
The Living Irenaeus of Lyons: A Blog Series on Against Heresies (Part 3: The Core Teachings of the Christian Faith)
Here in Part 3 of my series on Irenaeus’ Against Heresies, I’m going to focus Chapter 10 of Book 1, where, after detailing the particulars of Gnostic teachings ...
The Living Irenaeus of Lyons: A Blog Series on Against Heresies (Part 2: Con-men, Gnostics, and Scholars)
Over this past year, as I have been reading and paraphrasing Irenaeus’ Against Heresies, I knew that I was going to do a blog series on it. Now, here I am, read...
The Living Irenaeus of Lyons: A Blog Series on Against Heresies (Part 1)
Over this past year of 2025, I have been engaged in a personal project involving reading through the two works of Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies and On the...
“God’s Propaganda” by Kipp Davis–An Extended Book Analysis (Part 8: This is the End!)
As Jim Morrison famously sang, “This is the end!” Over these past two weeks, I have taken a tour through Kipp Davis’ recent book, God’s Propaganda. I’ve tried t...
“God’s Propaganda” by Kipp Davis–An Extended Book Analysis (Part 7: A Sprint to the End)
Are we at Part 7 already? Hopefully, this will be my next to last post on Kipp Davis’ book, God’s Propaganda. By now, I think I’ve emphasized enough what lies a...
“God’s Propaganda” by Kipp Davis–An Extended Book Analysis (Part 6: Those Intolerant Religious Bigots, Hezekiah, Josiah, and Jeremiah…and Manasseh, the Cultured Diplomat)
Welcome back, boys and girls! We have now come to Part 6 in our look at Kipp Davis’ God’s Propaganda: Pulling Back the Curtain on What the Bible Wants You to Se...
“God’s Propaganda” by Kipp Davis–An Extended Book Analysis (Part 5: Knowledge, Sex, Death, Marriage, and Origin Stories)
We continue on in our look at Kipp Davis’ God’s Propaganda: Pulling Back the Curtain on What the Bible Wants You to See. Chapter 8: Knowledge, Sex and DeathChap...