’To Behold its Own Delight’: The Beatific Vision in Irenaeus of Lyons

The aim of this essay is to give a high-level overview of Irenaeus’s beatific vision, and to suggest that for him, the beatific vision has a temporal dimension (now and future) and a dimension of degree (lesser now, greater in the future). His beatific vision is witnessed as it intersects with at le...

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Main Author: Arnold Brian J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2019-06-01
Series:Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/perc-2019-0015