St. Irenaeus on Unity

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🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Pope Francis recently announced a new Doctor of the Church: St. Irenaeus of Lyons. In this episode of FORMED Now, Dr. John Sehorn and Dr. Ben Akers discuss this second-century Church Father, explaining his importance to the history of Christianity and his title—the "Doctor of Unity." Watch Catholic Saints on FORMED. Sign Up for FORMED. Support this podcast and the Augustine Institute on the Mission Circle.

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast on Catholic Saints.
0:05.5	This podcast is produced by the Augustine Institute,
0:09.1	an Apostolate helping Catholics understand, live, and share their faith.
0:23.9	Hello, welcome to Catholic Saints. My name is Dr. Ben Acres.
0:25.0	I'm the chief content officer here at the Augustine Institute.
0:28.1	And my special guest today is Dr. John Seahorn, the dean and professor of theology at
0:32.5	the Augustine Institute Graduate School of Theology.
0:35.3	And today we're going to be talking about St. Ironaeus.
0:37.3	His feast day is
0:38.2	June 28th. Pope Francis just named him the Doctor of Unity. So he's going to name him a
0:45.2	doctor of the church. He's already a Father of the Church. So maybe we can talk about that. Father
0:48.8	of the Church, he's going to be named a doctor of the church, the Doctor of Unity. Pope Bank
0:52.9	the 16th called him the first church theologian
0:56.9	who created systematic theology.
1:00.3	So a great saint.
1:01.7	So we're going to get into some of the history of his context, historical context,
1:06.5	and some of the things he taught and what we can learn from him today.
1:09.3	So thanks for joining me, John.
1:10.4	Oh, my pleasure to be here, Ben.
1:11.6	Yeah.
1:11.9	So what's the first thing we need to know about Ironous?
1:14.2	When did he live?
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