LEADER 05764nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910826930503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-39882-2 010 $a9786612398827 010 $a90-474-3343-2 024 7 $a10.1163/ej.9789004166820.i-244 035 $a(CKB)1000000000821905 035 $a(EBL)468429 035 $a(OCoLC)647871807 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000361924 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11296233 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000361924 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10362859 035 $a(PQKB)11002469 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC468429 035 $a(OCoLC)647871807$z(OCoLC)606912758$z(OCoLC)706509950$z(OCoLC)743436753$z(OCoLC)748594466 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789047433439 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL468429 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10363759 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL239882 035 $a(PPN)170702928 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000821905 100 $a20080225d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIrenaeus on creation $ethe cosmic Christ and the saga of redemption /$fby M.C. Steenberg 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLeiden ;$aBoston $cBrill$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (258 p.) 225 1 $aSupplements to Vigiliae Christianae,$x0920-623X ;$vv. 91 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-04-16682-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [227]-237) and index. 327 $aCreation and the life of the human race : the contours of Irenaeus' cosmic anthropology -- Comparative sources : the gnostics -- Contemporary Christian sources : Justin and Theophilus Jewish sources -- Creation's stage : the background to Irenaeus' protology: the motivation and cause of creation -- Contemporary interpretations of creation and motivation -- Irenaeus on the motivation for creation -- The creator's untrammelled power : a doctrine of creation ex nihilo -- Creation ex nihilo in the broader theological milieu -- Irenaeus' developments creation ex nihilo clarified in Christ -- Chiliasm : reading the beginning through the end and the end through the beginning -- The work of his hands : the creation of the cosmos -- 'Trinity'? Creation as an act of Father, Son, and Spirit -- A triune act-three roles in creation -- Distinguishing the creative work -- The 'hands' of the Father -- A 'timeline' of creation -- The days of creation and the beginning of redemption -- Days that lead to growth : 'increase and multiply' -- Recapitulation, and a definition of history -- Dust and life : the creation of the human person -- The triune creation of humanity -- The untilled earth and the constitution of the human person -- the creature wrought of dust and breath : the composition of the human formation -- Four categories of incarnational reading -- God and not angels created the human handiwork -- Christ's birth and human nature -- The material aspect of humanity's being as a creature of flesh -- The human-shaped soul : man's immortal element in relation to the Holy Spirit -- From dust and breath to living image -- The paradise of humankind -- Humanity's relationship to the cosmos -- Humanity's social context : the relationship of Adam and Eve -- History transformed : humanity's transgression -- The tree and the prohibition -- The nature of the prohibition : protection from knowledge misused -- The relationship of knowledge and obedience -- The dynamic of maturing knowledge and responsibility -- A prohibition but not a test -- The fall of knowledge and knowing -- The question of humanity's fall -- The devil and the deception of the human child -- The devil's motivation -- The nature and the accomplishment of the deceit -- The response to sin: humankind -- The opening of humanity's eyes : awareness and reaction -- Humanity's fight and confrontation with God -- The response to sin : God -- The curse -- The clothing and the expulsion from paradise -- Stumbling to perfection : life after Eden -- Cain and Abel, and the internalisation of transgression -- Enoch, Noah and the deluge -- The descendents of Noah and the future of the race -- The Tower of Babel and the distribution of races. 330 $aScholarship on Irenaeus has long acknowledged the centrality of creation to his theology, yet without fitting this theme securely into the Christological vision of Christ the ?Recapitulator?. Studies have considered elements of Irenaeus? cosmology and anthropology in extraction; but without seeing creation as an intrinsic part of his Christocentric vision, these have only partially been able to capture the intricacy and significance of his embrace of the creation saga. Drawing on the most recent Irenaean scholarship, the present volume explores in detail the Christocentric cosmology of one of the second century?s greatest writers, setting him in the context of the theological currents of his day. The result is a volume that offers new insights into the trinitarian articulation of early Christianity, the full significance of humanity as bearing God?s ?image?, and a fuller reading of the details behind the title, ?Irenaeus the creationist?. 410 0$aSupplements to Vigiliae Christianae ;$vv. 91. 606 $aBiblical cosmology 606 $aCreation$xHistory of doctrines$yEarly church, ca. 30-600 615 0$aBiblical cosmology. 615 0$aCreation$xHistory of doctrines 676 $a231.765092 700 $aSteenberg$b M. C$g(Matthew Craig),$f1978-$01622264 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826930503321 996 $aIrenaeus on creation$93956028 997 $aUNINA