Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Irenaeus: argument and imagery
- Part I DIVINE INTELLECT
- Part II ECONOMY
- Part III RECAPITULATION
- Part IV PARTICIPATION
- Part V CONCLUSION
- Appendix: Gnosticism
- Select bibliography
- Citations from Irenaeus
- Citations from the bible
- Index of classical authors
- Index of patristic authors
- General index
Part II - ECONOMY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Irenaeus: argument and imagery
- Part I DIVINE INTELLECT
- Part II ECONOMY
- Part III RECAPITULATION
- Part IV PARTICIPATION
- Part V CONCLUSION
- Appendix: Gnosticism
- Select bibliography
- Citations from Irenaeus
- Citations from the bible
- Index of classical authors
- Index of patristic authors
- General index
Summary
God makes, man is made. As wise architect and sovereign king, God creates from nothing all that is, ordering opposites by his artistry. His plan unites disparate elements from creation to Christ.
So it is that a metrical line is beautiful in its own kind although two syllables of that line cannot be pronounced simultaneously … a line which is not simultaneously possessed of all its virtues but which produces them in order.
Augustine, On true religion, 22, 42For just as God spoke then to Adam in the evening, as he searched for him, so in the last days, with the same voice, he has visited the race of Adam, searching for it.
(5.15.4)The world in fact discerned by modern science has an openness in its becoming which is consonant, not only with its being a world of which we are actually inhabitants, but also a world which is the creation of the true and living God, continually at work within the process.
J. C. Polkinghorne, Science and providence (Boston, 1989), 99- Type
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- Irenaeus of Lyons , pp. 49 - 50Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001