The collection of materials of the Fifth International Patriotic Conference of the All-Church Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies named after Saints Cyril and Methodius “St. Irenaeus of Lyons in the theological tradition of East and West” (Moscow, April 19-21, 2018) includes reports by foreign and domestic patrolologists, theologians and historians Churches that examine important aspects of the study of the personality and theological heritage of the Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons (c. 130/140-198), such as his origins and church ministry in Rome and Lyon, his polemics with the Gnostics and other heretics, the literary features of his works, their ancient translations, his teaching about God and the knowledge of God, about man , about the Incarnation and salvation, about the Church and the end of world history, as well as its influence on the formation of the theological tradition of the Christian East and West.

The book can be used to deepen knowledge in patristics, church history, dogmatic theology, Christian asceticism, as well as in preparing students of theological, historical and philosophical, historical, cultural and religious studies specialties.