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Early Christian Writers

Lactantius, On the Anger of God

Early Christian Writers, Responses to the Problem of Evil & the Problem of Pain

Lucius Lactantius was an early Christian author (240–320 AD) who became an advisor to the first Christian Roman emperor, Constantine I. Lactantius’s A Treatise on the Anger of God, Addressed to Donatus is a short work arguing that God can be both kind and angry, and that God’s anger includes father-like corrective indignation, as well […]

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Irenaeus, Against Heresies

Early Christian Writers, Responses to the Problem of Evil & the Problem of Pain, Writings on Evil by Doctors of the Church

A central purpose of Against Heresies was to refute the heretical teachings of Gnosticism, which flourished during the early church period. Because many Gnostics held that spiritual knowledge was to be arrived at through interior means, and because many also claimed to have access to ‘secret knowledge’ about the nature of the universe, Gnostic beliefs

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