Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is versed in the lives or works of the fathers of the Christian church.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One versed in patristics.
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- noun One versed in
patristics .
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"Kirchenrecht," I.p. i ff., which, however, suffer from being a little overdriven.] [Footnote 146: See the important essay of Overbeck: Ueber die Anfänge d. patrist.
History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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