Word: irenaeus
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...first mention of a Gospel of Judas was a critical pan. In A.D. 180 the church father Irenaeus ascribed a work of that title to a group of contrarian believers who were called Cainites because they admired the first murderer, whom they saw as cursed by a cruel God. The 4th century bishop Epiphanius also attacked the text--after which it disappeared from record. "Because it was naughty," says James Robinson, an early-Christianity expert writing a book called The Secrets of Judas, "the orthodox church suppressed it, and it was buried somewhere...
...church fathers such as Irenaeus, Tertullian and Augustine hashed out Christian orthodoxy (and thereby some of the pressing philosophical questions of their day), their investigations inevitably spilled over into the hereafter. A centuries-long battle over the nature of human identity was waged in terms of whether the inhabitants of paradise would consist of body as well as soul. (The orthodox answer, confounding all heresies, remained yes.) If the virtuous soul departed the body at death and had to wait until Christ's Second Coming to reunite with it at the Resurrection, what did it do in the meantime...
Limbo-Bound. Error or not, infant baptism has its roots in antiquity. St. Irenaeus in the 2nd century referred to the practice, and it apparently had become the norm of the Church by the year 400. St. Augustine articulated the gloomy theology of baptism that was to remain current in the Church for nearly 1,000 years: that the ritual was necessary to cleanse an individual of the stain of original sin, and that the unbaptized were doomed to hell. Somewhat more merciful in his thinking, Thomas Aquinas later suggested that the unbaptized would go not to hell...
...from internal evidence that Philip was probably written by a disciple of the shadowy but formidable heretic Valentinus, the 2nd century priest who stood as candidate for the bishopric of Rome before lapsing into Gnosticism. In his works, which were savagely attacked by such early Christian apologists as St. Irenaeus, Valentinus argued that the real God was hidden to men's eyes; earth, the realm of evil, had been created by a lesser, malevolent deity. Jesus had been sent by the hidden God to redeem the world from this demiurge, and had imparted a secret wisdom, or gnosis...
...putting the matter in question form, Murray suggests that the .American system, including the American economy, is more than a material achievement to be held somewhat suspect from the spiritual point of view, but "a human good" and a limited "end-in-itself," recalling the 2nd century dictum of Irenaeus that "the material is susceptible of salvation...