Abstract
[...]the monograph begins with a chapter on the pneumatology of Irenaeus's older contemporary Justin Martyr as a point of contrast to show various insufficiencies in his mid-second century pneumatology, insufficiencies that Irenaeus would later successfully avoid. Throughout the volume, Briggman insists that Irenaeus consistently couples his trinitarian confession to trinitarian logic and even devotes the last chapter to this subject. [...]Briggman claims that Irenaeus is the first Christian author to develop a truly trinitarian account of God. [...]this book raises several wider questions about the development of pneumatology and Irenaeus's role in it.