Disputes about sin: Irenaeus and gnosticism - 25 words to speak an ethical language
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25 words for an ethical language
reading St. John Paul II's writings.
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Disputes about sin: Irenaeus and gnosticism
Disputes
In the early centuries, responsibility is mentioned mainly in its most direct consequences of good or evil, sin or love.
The gnostic thesis about the freedom of angels and men and their responsibility for remuneration were refuted by St. Irenaeus on the basis of the Old and New Testaments, successive revelations of the one God.