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St Irenaeus is the most important theologian of the second century, laying the foundation for all future Christian thinkers. Irenaeus tells us that he had known Polycarp, who had himself known the apostles and been appointed by them as the bishop of the church of Smyrna. This direct contact with the immediate successors of the apostles was of importance for Irenaeus in his later defense of Christian practice and teaching. In this work Against the Heresies, he was the first to utilize the full range of apostolic writings in his controversy with the Gnostics and others. Uniting, for the first time, the whole history of God's activity in one all-encompassing divine economy, Irenaeus demonstrates that there is but one God, who has made Himself known through His one Son, Jesus Christ, by the one Holy Spirit, to the one human race, bringing His creatures made from mud into the intimacy of communion with Himself.
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Contents Include - The Johannine Epistles in the Early Church - Background and Settings of the First Epistle - Character and Contents of the First Epistle - Relation of the First Epistle of the Fourth Gospel - Character and Contents of the Second and Third Epistles - Place, Date and Authorship of the Johnannine Epistles - COMMENTARY - THE FIRST EPISTLE OF JOHN - Exordium: Theme and Purpose of the Epistle - What is Christianity? - Life in the Family of God - The Certainty of the Faith - Postcript - THE SECOND EPISTLE OF JOHN - Epistolary Introduction - The Christian Life - False Teachers and How to Treat them - Epistolery Conclusion - THE THIRD EPISTLE OF JOHN - Epistolary Introduction - Gaius and the Travelling Missionaries - The Recalcitrance of Diotrephes - A Testimonial for Demetrius - Epistolary Conclusion
"The Art of Preaching: A Theological and Practical Primer explores the theological understanding of the homily, lessons from classical and contemporary rhetoric, the relevance of preaching for the life of the Church, highlighting recent teachings of the Magisterium, and it presents the incarnation as the foundation for preaching, understood as an essential aspect of the priestly life and mission. This primer offers a simple and effective method for the preparation and delivery of homilies. The book also provides a selection of homilies from the great preachers of the Church, organized chronologically, with brief introductions and commentaries that highlight what those homilies teach us for preaching today"--
This is the English translation of the monumental study of the theology of the Apostle Paul by the Dutch theologian and Biblical scholar, Herman Ridderbos.