Irenaeus on creation
Subtitle: the cosmic Christ and the saga of redemption
By: by Matthew C. Steenberg.
Series: Supplements to vigiliae christianae -- v. 91
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9789004166820
Subjects: Jesus Christ -- Person and offices; Irenaeus, -- Saint, Bishop of Lyon; Biblical cosmology; Creation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Creation and the life of the human race : the contours of Irenaeus' cosmic anthropology; title: Comparative sources :  the gnostics; title: Contemporary Christian sources : Justin and Theophilus Jewish sources; title: Creation's stage : the background to Irenaeus' protology the motivation and cause of creation; title: Contemporary interpretations of creation and motivation; title: Irenaeus on the motivation for creation; title: The creator's; title: Untrammelled power : a doctrine of creation ex nihilo; title: Creation; title: Ex nihilo in the broader theological milieu; title: Irenaeus' developments creation ex nihilo clarified in Christ; title: Chiliasm : reading the beginning through the end and the end through the beginning; title: The work of his hands : the creation of the cosmos; title: Trinity's creation as an act of Father, Son, and Spirit; title: A triune act-three roles in creation; title: Distinguishing the creative work; title: The 'hands' of the Father; title: A 'timeline' of creation; title: The days of creation and the beginning of redemption; title: Days that lead to growth : 'increase and multiply'; title: Recapitulation, and a definition of history; title: Dust and life : the creation of the human person; title: The triune creation of humanity; title: The untilled earth and the constitution of the human person; title: the creature wrought of dust and breath : the composition of the human formation; title: Four categories of incarnational reading; title: God and not angels created the human handiwork; title: Christ's birth and human nature; title: The material aspect of humanity's being as a creature of flesh; title: The human-shaped soul : man's immortal element in relation to the Holy Spirit; title: From dust and breath to living image; title: The paradise of humankind; title: Humanity's relationship to the cosmos; title: Humanity's social context : the relationship of Adam and Eve; title: History transformed : humanity's transgression; title: The tree and the prohibition; title: The nature of the prohibition : protection from knowledge misused; title: The relationship of knowledge and obedience; title: The dynamic of maturing knowledge and responsibility; title: A prohibition but not a test; title: The fall of knowledge and knowing; title: The question of humanity's fall; title: The devil and the deception of the human child; title: The devil's motivation; title: The nature and the accomplishment of the deceit; title: The response to sin: humankind; title: The opening of humanity's eyes : awareness and reaction; title: Humanity's fight and confrontation with God; title: The response to sin : God; title: The curse; title: The clothing and the expulsion from paradise; title: Stumbling to perfection : life after Eden; title: Cain and Abel, and the internalisation of transgression; title: Enoch, Noah and the deluge; title: The descendents of Noah and the future of the race; title: The Tower of Babel and the distribution of races.