Abstract
To study the work of St. Irenaeus, 'that most painstaking enquirer into all the heretical doctrines', as Tertullian was to call him (adv. Val. 5), is to study the Church's response to the great religious movement which we have come to call 'gnosticism'-and to study it in its most decisive phase. The qualification is important: for Irenaeus bequeathed to the Church a task of assimilation which was to take generations of theologians to accomplish. Nonetheless, I think we can see in his work both the basic lines of orientation in
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