Against Heresies
Work of Christian theology written in Greek by Irenaeus
Against Heresies
Against Heresies is a work of Christian theology written in Greek by Irenaeus, the bishop of Lugdunum (now Lyon in France). Due to its reference to Eleutherus as the current bishop of Rome, the work is usually dated c. 180. In it, Irenaeus identifies and describes several schools of Gnosticism, and other schools of Christian thought, whose beliefs he rejects as heresy. He contrasts them with orthodox Christianity (proto-orthodox Christianity). Only fragments of the original text in ancient Greek remain today, but a complete (less one paragraph) Latin translation – "very ancient", "probably made in the fourth or early fifth century" – still survives. Books IV and V exist in their entirety in a literal version in Armenian. There are quotations in Syriac, but it is not clear if a translation of the whole was ever made into Syriac. Against Heresies (Latin: Adversus haereses, Greek: Κατὰ αἱρέσεων), also given as Against the Heresies, is the conventional name for the work. That name for it...
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