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Fathers of the Church - collective name for the Christian writers of early times whose work is considered generally orthodox. A convenient definition includes all such writers up to and including St. Gregory I (St. Gregory the Great) in the West and St. John of Damascus in the East (see patristic literature). There are several conventional groupings of the Fathers of the Church. One of these


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    The Christian Fathers » Read Now

    by Maurice F. Wiles. 192 pgs.

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    The Greek Fathers (1929) » Read Now

    by James Marshall Campbell. 182 pgs.

    ...literary frames the Church of the Fathers owes to Jewish literature...a disobedience of the Church of the Fathers to Our Saviours command...Hellenism. The Apostolic...
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    The Patristic Heritage and Modernity, in The Ecumenical Review » Read Now

    by Hegumen Hilarion Alfeyev. 21 pgs.

    ...golden age" in which the great Fathers of the church lived, the 4th century for...Fathers endures in the works of the church Fathers of our days, to last as long...same...
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    Apocatastasis in Patristic Theology, in Theological Studies » Read Now

    by John R. Sachs. 24 pgs.

    ...Althaus, Heilslehre 209. (96) Constantine N. Tsirpanlis, "The Concept of Universal Salvation in Saint Gregory of Nyssa," in Greek Patristic Theology: Basic Doctrines in...
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    The Study of Spirituality ("The Early Fathers" begins on p. 102) » Read Now

    by Cheslyn Jones, Geoffrey Wainwright, Edward Yarnold. 642 pgs.

    A companion volume to The Study of Liturgy, this collection examines the nature and form of individual devotion, discussing the various patterns of Christian discipleship that have evolved through the centuries. Written by contributors representing the Anglican, Roman Catholic, Free Church, and...
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    Early Christian Thought and the Classical Tradition: Studies in Justin, Clement, and Origen » Read Now

    by Henry Chadwick. 176 pgs.

    This enlightening study examines the relationship of the early Christians to the classical tradition. Based on the work of the Christian thinkers, Justine, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen, and existing pagan criticism of the Church, the book illustrates how rejection of the classical tradition...
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    Augustine the Bishop: The Life and Work of a Father of the Church » Read Now

    by Frederik van der Meer, Brian Battershaw, G. R. Lamb. 679 pgs.

    ...believe that they had been used in irony. Further, he adjured his brothers and fathers in Madaura in which he had been to school as a youth to have serious fear of the...
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    The Western Fathers: Being the Lives of Ss. Martin of Tours, Ambrose, Augustine of Hippo, Honoratus of Arles, and Germanus Auxerre » Read Now

    by Christopher Dawson, F. R. Hoare. 322 pgs.

    ...partaking whereof, the maddened church had been cast into her delirious...ravings for holy pilgrimages and the ascetic life" p. 331 . The...Rev. Alexander Roberts, D.D....
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    The Apostolic Fathers' First Thousand Years, in Church history » Read Now

    by Robert M. Grant. 9 pgs.

    ...Apostolic Fathers themselves...all periods of the churchs life before...Apostolic Fathers, neglected by the leaders of the church, survived...Apostolic Fathers wrote, the...
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    Canon and Criterion in Christian Theology: From the Fathers to Feminism » Read Now

    by William J. Abraham. 514 pgs.

    The book provides an original and important narrative on the significance of canon in the Christian tradition. Standard accounts of canon reduce canon to scripture and treat scripture as a criterion of truth. Scripture is then related in positive or negative ways to tradition, reason, and...
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    Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers: Semantic Extension from the Ethnoscience Tradition » Read Now

    by David B. Kronenfeld. 273 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    Kronenfeld aims to present a comprehensive understanding of the process by which we use words in speech to refer to things in the world, and to develop a theory of the semantics of natural language which can account adequately for native speakers' intuitions regarding word meanings and their word usage.
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