St. Irenaeus: Truth Is Received, Not Invented - The Fathers Know Best

Exploring the Church’s Role in Preserving the Truth Entrusted to Her, Unchanged Through the Ages. Part of the "Fathers Know Best" series

The early Church Fathers were not private thinkers offering isolated opinions. They wrote as witnesses within the life of the Church, reasoning from what had been received from the Apostles rather than from personal insight or innovation. In this installment of Fathers Know Best, St. Irenaeus of Lyons explains why the Church’s unity of belief across tim…