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The 26 pages that link to Irenaeus, each with the reason it gives.

• Apostolic successionRelated: He used lists of bishops to argue that churches preserved apostolic teaching.

• TheodicyRelated: His account of human development became a foundation for later soul-making theodicies.

• Gospel of LukeRelated: He explicitly associated Luke with Paul’s companion and affirmed four canonical Gospels.

• GnosticismRelated: His account shaped later knowledge of Gnostic groups, though it was written to refute them.

• Atonement in ChristianityRelated: His account of Christ renewing humanity became an early influential explanation of salvation.

• TheosisRelated: His writings connect Christ’s incarnation with humanity’s transformation and life with God.

• HeresyRelated: His work Against Heresies catalogued and rebutted rival Christian teachings.

• John the ApostleRelated: Irenaeus provides an influential early account identifying the apostle John with the Gospel’s author.

• TertullianRelated: Like Tertullian, Irenaeus defended inherited Christian teaching against rival interpretations.

• Creation ex nihiloRelated: He defended the one God as maker of both matter and the ordered world.

• Church FathersRelated: His defense of apostolic tradition helped define the Fathers’ response to rival Christian teachings.

• DocetismRelated: His writings preserve early descriptions of teachings later grouped under Docetism.

• Marcion of SinopeRelated: His writings preserve an early account of Marcion’s scriptural choices and influence.

• Apostolic traditionRelated: He made public teaching in apostolic churches a test against rival claims.

• Papias of HierapolisRelated: Irenaeus briefly identifies Papias as an ancient hearer of John and companion of Polycarp.

• MarcionismRelated: His Against Heresies describes and contests Marcion’s separation of the creator God from the Father of Jesus.

• Hippolytus of RomeRelated: Irenaeus’s heresiology precedes and helps contextualize Hippolytus’s catalogues of rival teachings.

• God the SonRelated: His account links the Son’s incarnation to the restoration of humanity.

• PolycarpRelated: Irenaeus recalled Polycarp as a teacher who had known the apostle John.

• Image of GodRelated: Irenaeus distinguished image from likeness and related human development to salvation.

• Luke the EvangelistRelated: He explicitly attributed the third Gospel to Luke, a companion of Paul.

• Pope LinusRelated: His succession list is an early witness placing Linus after Peter in Rome.

• Simon MagusRelated: He presents Simon as the originator of a lineage of heresy.

• HexakosioihexekontahexaphobiaRelated: His early treatment shows that interpretations of 666 were debated in antiquity.

• Pope Alexander IRelated: His succession list places Alexander among Rome’s early bishops.