God and Christ in Irenaeus. By Anthony Briggman
This book is written, in sympathy with the admonitions of Richard Norris some 40 years ago (pp. 4-5), to redress the failure of modern scholars to canvass the metaphysical assumptions on which Irenaeus grounds his case for the unity of creation and redemption. The objection that secular disciplines...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2020
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 71, Issue: 2, Pages: 889-892 |
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| Summary: | This book is written, in sympathy with the admonitions of Richard Norris some 40 years ago (pp. 4-5), to redress the failure of modern scholars to canvass the metaphysical assumptions on which Irenaeus grounds his case for the unity of creation and redemption. The objection that secular disciplines are redundant when the sole canon of truth is Scripture is pre-empted by a study of the terms employed by Irenaeus to characterize the argumentative methods of his opponents. In accepting Briggman’s proof that all of these—hypothesis, oikonomia, plasma—retain the sense that they bear in pagan rhetorical theory (pp. 9-32), we should not deny that the last two at least have also a cosmological application: Plotinus and Tertullian show the same facility in the use of words which are simultaneously applicable to the fabrication of a delusive cosmos and the arbitrary fashioning of a myth. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flaa045 |