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Pope Benedict has praised the HCM for its usefulness but also said that it is not what we need for preaching...he's suggested rightly that the Church Fathers are a much better example.
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The so-called Church Fathers themselves wrote the rule book that twisted human sexuality.
Dan Agin: Nostalgia for the Middle Ages? A Rotten Thousand Years 2008
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The Church Fathers were the leaders in intellectual as well as in spiritual matters, while monks and priests were the principal teachers.
History of Education Levi Seeley 1887
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It has always struck me as an odd thing for all of the Church Fathers to be incorrect about.
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Well, if you want to stick to what the "Church" and the Church Fathers taught, until some Christians in pretty recent times came up with totally different views about the Parousia, then you´d better throw preterism out the window.
Review of Doubting Jesus' Resurrection James F. McGrath 2010
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Hebrews 7.18; Hebrews 10.9; 2 Corinthians 3: 14; Hebrews 8.7 'Colossians 2.14 (not to mention the Church Fathers, Councils etc. etc.).
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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And a mass conversion of Jews to Christ is thought, by many exegetes, Church Fathers etc. to be predicted.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Some external sources from the early Church Fathers suggest this line of reasoning, including Irenaeus, Tertullian, Papias, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen the latter two are seen in the writings of Eusebius.
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His scientific fame notwithstanding, Newton's studies of the Bible and of the early Church Fathers were also noteworthy.
Obama Lit In South Carolina Proclaims His Committed Christianity 2009
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The idea that God is solely male is the work of the Church Fathers who chose which gospel accounts to include in the official New Testament and excluded all the Gnostic Gospels that contain references to an androgynous God, and of the bishops who met at Constantinople in 381 and modified the Creed to say that the Holy Spirit is male.
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