Fragments of the Lost Writing of Irenaeus

Saint Irenaeus (? – 202 A.D.) was Bishop of Lugdunum (now Lyons) in Gaul, then a part of the Roman Empire. He was an early church father and apologist, and his writings were formative in the early development of Christian theology. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he was brought up in a Christian family rather than converting as an adult. The central point of Irenaeus' theology is the unity and the goodness of God, in opposition to the Gnostics' division of God into a number of divine "Ae...