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Eric Osborn's book presents a major study of Irenaeus (125-200), bishop of Lyons, who attacked Gnostic theosophy with positive ideas as well as negative critiques. Irenaeus's combination of argument and imagery, logic and aesthetic, was directed to the bible. Dominated by a Socratic love of truth and a classical love of beauty, he was a founder of Western humanism. Erasmus, who edited the first printed edition of Irenaeus, praised him for his freshness and vigour. He is today valued for his splendid aphorisms, his optimism, love of the created world, evolutionary view of history, theology of beauty and humour. Why have two millennia of European culture been so creative? Irenaeus points to Greek ways of thinking and the Christian Bible. Irenaeus's thought is complex, yet rewarding to the critical reader, and this full study of it will be of interest to theologians, historians of ideas, classicists, scientists and students.

Christian saints --- Saints --- Canonization --- Irenaeus, --- Irenaeus, Sanctus --- Irenaeus --- Irenaeus of Lyon --- 276 =75 IRENAEUS LUGDUNENSIS --- Griekse patrologie--IRENAEUS LUGDUNENSIS --- Irenaeus Lugdunensis. --- Theology --- Théologie --- History --- Histoire --- Catholic Church --- Eglise catholique --- Doctrines --- History. --- France --- Lyon (France) --- Biography --- Irenaeus Lugdunensis --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion --- Christian saints - France - Lyon - Biography.

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Throughout the course of Byzantine history, Christian doctrine taught that angels have a powerful place in cosmology. It also taught that angels were immaterial, bodiless, invisible beings. But if that were the case, how could they be visualized and depicted in icons and other works of art? This book describes the strategies used by Byzantine artists to represent the incorporeal forms of angels and the rationalizations in defense of their representations mustered by theologians in the face of iconoclastic opposition. Glenn Peers demonstrates that these problems of representation provide a unique window on Late Antique thought in general.

Church history --- Angels in literature. --- Angels in art. --- Angels --- Iconoclasm --- Christianity --- Angels (Buddhism) in art --- Idols and images --- Biblical teaching. --- History. --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- History --- Worship --- Orthodox Eastern Church --- Byzantine Empire --- Church history. --- Orthodox Eastern Church -- Byzantine Empire -- History.. --- Iconoclasm -- Byzantine Empire -- History.. --- Angels -- Biblical teaching.. --- Angels in art.. --- Angels in literature.. --- Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.. --- Byzantine Empire -- Church history. --- aesthetics. --- ancient world. --- angels in art. --- angels in literature. --- angels. --- archangel. --- art. --- barberini diptych. --- bible. --- bodies. --- byzantine art. --- byzantium. --- cherub. --- cherubim. --- church doctrine. --- divinity. --- early christian theology. --- early church. --- embodiment. --- folk belief. --- folk religion. --- greece. --- hagiography. --- hellenism. --- iconoclasm. --- icons. --- literature. --- madonna. --- magritte. --- michael. --- middle ages. --- religion. --- religious practices. --- saints legends. --- saints lives. --- saints. --- sarcophagus. --- theology. --- unrepresentable. --- virgin and child.