Against the Night

by RB Banfield

Overview

The life of Irenaeus of Smyrna, and the Christians of the Second Century, as they faced trials and battles from those who didn't understand them. Their worst threat comes from those teaching new doctrines, ones not handed down from the Apostles, twisting the Word of God for their own profit. Polycarp, Justin Matryr and Tatian are just a few famous names who influenced Irenaeus as he grew in his faith to be able to refute the heretics of his day. Drawing upon their actual writings, this book recreates their world in a realistic and dramatic way.
Book One: Finding The Faith, follows Irenaeus as a young man, meeting Polycarp in Smyrna, and Papias in Hierapolis, and his first encounter with Gnostic teaching. The royal entourage of Emperor Hadrian comes to Smyrna, and Irenaeus meets Florinus, slave to the emperor and fellow believer.
Book Two, Living The Faith, has Irenaeus in Rome at the same time as Justin Martyr and Tatian. Meanwhile, in Smyrna, Polycarp stands strong against persecution.
Book Three, Keeping The Faith, is when Irenaeus travels to the town of Lugdunum in Gaul to help the local Christians help and convert the local Celtic tribes. He is forced to become the church leader in Lugdunum, and protect the believers against the worst persecution yet seen.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045650793
Publisher:	RB Banfield
Publication date:	05/11/2014
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	432 KB

About the Author

R.B. Banfield lives in Christchurch, New Zealand, a city famous for suffering large earthquakes in 2010 and 2011. His quiet out-of-the-way house suffered minimal damage and yet was deemed "red zone", so through New Zealand government help, he was able to relocate his family to safer ground. Like most Cantabrians, R.B. is well prepared for earthquakes and their aftermaths, by estimating their size, depth and location, and being disappointed in any below a 4.0. Also, like most Cantabrians, R.B. has become very good at driving Christchurch roads and avoiding the numerous and ever changing holes and bumps, not to mention the growing families of orange cones. R.B. had been writing since a young age, beginning with the ambitious Robber's Rock, an exciting children's adventure augmented by pictures cut and pasted from newspapers. His follow up work was an original space yarn set on a space station, where the desperate crew had run low on its supply of space floss. His major hobby is in studying international cricket, which led to his devising a new and better method of statistics, and runs a website (www.cricketelevens.com) that he really should update one of these days. He also thinks himself as a studious movie critic, mostly happy at the state of modern film making, but concerned as to why they can't all be great, and why they can't make some of his own stories into movies. He does have plenty of casting suggestions, and might be willing to help with the scripts.