The Doctrine of Sin, The First Period, 80-250 A.D. (5): Effects of the Fall

We concluded our preceding article with a quotation from Irenaeus' Writings against Heresies. Of Iren- aeus, Hagenbach writes as follows, Vol. I, 167: We concluded our preceding article with a quotation from Irenaeus' Writings against Heresies. Of Iren- aeus, Hagenbach writes as follows, Vol. I, 167: According to Duncker, the doctrine of original sin and hereditary evil is so fully developed in the writings of Irenaeus, "that the characteristic features of the western type of doctrine may be...