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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of the lives, writings, and doctrines of the Church Fathers.
- noun The writings of the Church Fathers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That department of study which is occupied with the doctrines and writings of the fathers of the Christian church. Also called
patrology .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That departnent of historical theology which treats of the lives and doctrines of the Fathers of the church.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The study of the works of the early Christian Church Fathers.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the study of the lives, writings, and doctrines of the Church Fathers
- noun the writings of the early Church Fathers
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The study of the writings of the Fathers of the Church, has more commonly been known in England as "patristics", or, more commonly still, as "patristic study".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Posted in Christian, The Fathers, tagged "On the Soul and the Resurrection", patristics, St. Gregory of Nyssa, St. Macrina on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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Posted in Christian, The Fathers, tagged "On the Soul and the Resurrection", patristics, St. Gregory of Nyssa, St. Macrina on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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The Council Fathers thought that a change in tone (Aggiornamento) and an emphasis on patristics and Scripture (Resourcement) would stave off decline.
Bohemian thoughts... 2009
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Mr Likoudis I remember as a gifted and very readable polemicist; no doubt his work on Orthodox patristics is more than usually valuable; no doubt we can all fall on one another like wolves until the crack of doom.
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Scrutiny of the writings of saints, scholastics, and patristics suggests that kneeling is the proper posturing.
Archive 2008-05-01 Luxury Home 2008
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Scrutiny of the writings of saints, scholastics, and patristics suggests that kneeling is the proper posturing.
Kneel: No butts about it Luxury Home 2008
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And behind English literature, Euripides, Homer, Dante not to mention all the patristics?
an American ear ... Fred 2007
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But he never identified himself in the column as Orthodox, and his comment about "scholastic Catholicism" is way off-the-mark when you consider Benedict's great knowledge of patristics, especially the work of Augustine.
Frank Schaeffer 2005
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And for those who think opposition to capital punishment is an innovation for modern liberal Christians, I found this quote from Lactantius, a third-century Christian writer whom I vaguely remember from a graduate course in patristics:
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