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The Living Irenaeus of Lyons: A Blog Series on Against Heresies (Part 6: Book 2—Church Teaching vs. Heretics)

Posted on February 25, 2026 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 1 Comment

It has been three months since I last wrote anything here on my blog. I’m going to finally get around to get back into the swing of things by completing my seri...

Book Review/Church Fathers/Church History

The Living Irenaeus of Lyons: A Blog Series on Against Heresies (Part 5: An Overview of the “Gnostic Bench”)

Posted on November 5, 2025 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 0 Comment

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...

Book Review/Church Fathers/Church History

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)

Posted on November 2, 2025 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 0 Comment

Throughout Part 1 of Against Heresies, Irenaeus gives long, detailed, and extremely confusing explanations of all the teachings of the various Gnostic heretical...

Book Review/Church Fathers/Church History

The Living Irenaeus of Lyons: A Blog Series on Against Heresies (Part 3: The Core Teachings of the Christian Faith)

Posted on November 1, 2025 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 0 Comment

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 ...

Biblical Studies/Book Review/Church Fathers/Church History

The Living Irenaeus of Lyons: A Blog Series on Against Heresies (Part 2: Con-men, Gnostics, and Scholars)

Posted on October 12, 2025 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 1 Comment

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...

Book Review/Church Fathers/Church History

The Living Irenaeus of Lyons: A Blog Series on Against Heresies (Part 1)

Posted on October 10, 2025 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 1 Comment

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...

Biblical Studies/Church History/Creation Evolution Debate

Irenaeus of Lyon: Adam and Eve as Children, and the Greek Philosophical Concepts of Becoming and Being (Part 3)

Posted on November 19, 2015 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 6 Comments

As I mentioned in the earlier posts, Irenaeus taught that Adam and Eve were essentially children. Such an understanding relates to the very way Irenaeus underst...

Biblical Studies/Church History/Creation Evolution Debate/Ken Ham

Irenaeus of Lyon, and the Early Church’s Teaching of Adam and Eve (Part 1)

Posted on November 16, 2015 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 2 Comments

Over the past year and a half, I have been doing quite a lot research and writing about the young earth creationist movement of Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis. ...

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