Irenaeus of Lyons </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Osborn, Eric</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">8:0</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Cambridge University Press</publisher> <dateIssued>2001</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>307tr.</extent> <extent>Hardcover, illustrations</extent> <extent>24cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>Eric Osborn's book presents a major study of Irenaeus (125-200), bishop of Lyons, who attacked Gnostic theosophy with positive ideas as well as negative critiques. Irenaeus' combination of argument and imagery, logic and aesthetic, was directed to a new document, the Christian bible. Dominated by a Socratic love of truth and a classical love of beauty, he was a founder of western humanism. Erasmus, who edited the first printed edition of Irenaeus, praised him for his freshness and vigour. He is today valued for his splendid aphorisms, his optimism, love of the created world, evolutionary view of history, theology of beauty and humour.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Eric Osborn</note> <subject> <topic>Christian saints -- Biography</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Church history -- Primitive and early church</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Human evolution -- Religious aspects -- Christianity</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">270.1092</classification> <classification authority="ddc">E68-O81</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780521800068, 0521800064</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/11093/irenaeus.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/11093/irenaeus.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordContentSource authority="marcorg"/> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2023-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119070956.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>