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Recapitulation

Christ gathering up all humanity in himself, undoing Adam's fall step by step

Recapitulation is the teaching, set out by Irenaeus in Against Heresies, that Christ sums up and restores all humanity in himself, reversing Adam's fall stage by stage. As the new Adam, the Son retraces and heals what was lost, so that what was broken in the first man is set right in him. The idea joins the work of the Incarnation to the renewal and salvation of the human race.

How it traveled

  1. Against Heresies: Book V
    Lyons · 202
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  2. Against Heresies: Book III
    Lyons · 202
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  3. Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenæus
    Lyons · 202
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  4. Ephraim Syrus: The Nisibene Hymns
    Edessa · 373
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  5. Ephraim Syrus: Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh
    Edessa · 373
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  6. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  7. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  8. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  9. A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  10. The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  11. Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  12. Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  13. The Enchiridion
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  14. The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret
    Cyrrhus · 458
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  15. Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59)
    Paris · 1274
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Against Heresies: Book V · Irenaeus of Lyons

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Against Heresies: Book III · Irenaeus of Lyons

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Against Heresies: Book V · Irenaeus of Lyons

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Against Heresies: Book V · Irenaeus of Lyons

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Ephesians · Paul the Apostle

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Against Heresies: Book III · Irenaeus of Lyons

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Against Heresies: Book V · Irenaeus of Lyons

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Against Heresies: Book V · Irenaeus of Lyons

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Ephraim Syrus: Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh · Ephrem the Syrian

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Expositions on the Book of Psalms · Augustine of Hippo

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Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenæus · Irenaeus of Lyons

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Against Heresies: Book V · Irenaeus of Lyons

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Against Heresies: Book V · Irenaeus of Lyons

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Ephraim Syrus: Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh · Ephrem the Syrian

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Epistles on the Arian Heresy and the Deposition of Arius. · Alexander of Alexandria

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