Ante-Nicene Christianity: Creation, Incarnation, and θέωσις

Theophilus of Antioch

The Nature of Man

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf02.iv.ii.ii.xxvii.html

We Shall See God When We Put on Immortality

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf02.iv.ii.i.vii.html

Iraneaus of Lyons

Jesus Christ was not a mere man, begotten from Joseph in the ordinary course of nature, but was very God, begotten of the Father most high, and very man, born of the Virgin.

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.ix.iv.xx.html

Christ assumed actual flesh, conceived and born of the Virgin.

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.ix.iv.xxiii.html

Explanation of the words of Christ, "No man knoweth the Father, but the Son," etc.; which words the heretics misinterpret. Proof that, by the Father revealing the Son, and by the Son being revealed, the Father was never unknown.

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.ix.vi.vii.html

Why man was not made perfect from the beginning.

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.ix.vi.xxxix.html

When Christ visited us in His grace, He did not come to what did not belong to Him: also, by shedding His true blood for us, and exhibiting to us His true flesh in the Eucharist, He conferred upon our flesh the capacity of salvation.

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.ix.vii.iii.html

The power and glory of God shine forth in the weakness of human flesh, as He will render our body a participator of the resurrection and of immortality, although He has formed it from the dust of the earth; He will also bestow upon it the enjoyment of immortality, just as He grants it this short life in common with the soul.

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.ix.vii.iv.html

Inasmuch as Christ did rise in our flesh, it follows that we shall be also raised in the same; since the resurrection promised to us should not be referred to spirits naturally immortal, but to bodies in themselves mortal.

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.ix.vii.viii.html