Download or read book Irenaeus, the Valentinian Gnostics, and the Kingdom of God (A.H. Book V) written by Mark Jeffrey Olson and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By focusing upon Irenaeus' defence of the Catholic or Orthodox position, this volume provides a balance to the mass of Gnostic scholarship produced since the publication of the Nag Hammadi texts.