Irenaeus on creation : the cosmic Christ and the saga of redemption / / by M.C. Steenberg.

• Superior document: Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, v. 91
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Steenberg, M. C. 1978-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; v. 91.
• Physical Description: xii, 244 p.

Table of Contents

• Creation 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.