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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 June 2011
It seems suitable, when honoring a dean who has become a bishop, to write on an episcopal theologian who thought he could answer Gnostics by discussing curriculum. I doubt that in either office Krister Stendahl would ever have taken such a tack. It is odd to see Irenaeus doing so.
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7 RSV, slightly revised.
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19 Clement Strom. 3.5.3
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25 Again, cf. ibid., 1.2 and 1.5
26 Adv. math. 1.306.
27 ibid., 1.51.
28 Cf. Melito Hom. pasch. 36–37.
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