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According to Marcion, the teaching of Jesus has unfortunately been mixed up by the evangelists with elements from the Old Testament, from which it must be set free. The principle of justice and the principle of love are in stark opposition, as are the religion of works and the religion of
grace, the religion of legal exteriority and spiritual inferiority. This is the first systematic form of theological anti-Semitism.
The bodily is regarded as something antidivine,
flesh and it’s saving role in the Incarnation
the Jewish Kabbala
also of predominantly Gnostic origin.
the logic of Old and New Testaments in their perpetual unity. The biblical way to God has been opened up by God Himself—
God’s Word is the way.
Irenaeus taught the unity of the testaments in Christ: they were different, because they were different stages in the one divine education of the human race.
The Passion as the presupposition of redemption and union with God (5) If He was not born, neither did He die. And if He did not die, neither did He rise
from the dead. And if He did not rise from the dead, He did not conquer death and abolish its reign.
He is God’s Word, the Self-Expression of the Father.
The Holy Spirit, too, identified with the ‘Wisdom’ of God,
he sees the creation taking place in the Logos,
the plan of creation is directed towards the summing up, in the fulness of time, of all things in
the Son ma...
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their function of making visible the invisible
without the Spirit there is no seeing of the Word of God, and without the Son no one can approach the Father. For the Son is knowledge of the Father, and knowledge of
the Son is through the Holy Spirit.
For the Father is invisible and inaccessible to all creatures, and so it needed the Son to lead those who are to reach God into submission to the Father.
He is invisible and inexpressible to all He has made, but by no means unknown.
God out of nothing created all things that they might exist (cf Wisd 1:14),
To believe in Him is to do His will
Christ our Lord suffered a strong and unflinching Passion. Not only was He Himself not in danger of being corrupted, He also strengthened corrupted man with His power and called him back to incorruption.
Lord makes His disciples perfect in their seeking and in their finding of the Father.
Created things, in their great number and diversity, fit beautifully and harmoniously into the creation as a whole.
And those who listen to the melody ought to praise and glorify the Artist,
do not dream up some other Father above God, as if you had taken all His measurements,
as regards His love (for that is what leads us through the Word to God), those who obey Him are evermore learning that there is such a great God.
His love, He is evermore known through the One through whom He made all things. This is His Word, our Lord Jesus Christ,
Love is the way to God
Ultimately, God can be known only through God
he might always have something towards which he could advance.
What the Lord really taught is this: no one can know God unless God teaches him;
it is the Father’s will that God be known.
He brought us all newness by bringing Himself, who had been foretold.
From the beginning the Son has been present to His handiwork,
The Son of God has been sown everywhere throughout the Scriptures [of Moses]. Sometimes He speaks with Abraham, sometimes with Noah, giving him the measurements of the ark; He looks for Adam, brings judgement on the Sodomites. There are times when He is actually seen, guiding Jacob on his way, speaking with Moses from the bush.
Incarnation as Recapitulation
God becomes ‘nothing’, so that the ‘nothings’ might become God,
Irenaeus calls this wonderful thing recapitulation (ana-kephalaiosis).
the second Adam is the r...
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Sinful, lost, and wandering man is not just put back on course by the companionship of love; more
profoundly, he is taken into that love.
St. Paul coined the word ‘recapitulation’ to express the meaning...
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God’s plan to ‘bring everything together under...
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As recapitulation (ana-kephalaiosis), Christ is the Head (caput, kephale) of the world.
self-abasement of Christ, by which He gets down to man and lifts him up to God;
reconciliation of the world and God, of nature and grace,
which has its foundation in the one...
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