Sentences with phrase «church fathers»

If you go back to some of those early Church fathers of the Western tradition, there's some pretty crazy stuff about women in their writing.

Not all of the early church fathers believed in literal six - day creation.

We must remember, the early church fathers warned, that this union is not a confusion of divine and human.

The biggest hole is that all the early church fathers from the the 2nd century don't give any hint to that.

73, De Bono Patientiae and Ad Donatum — all seem to be instances of Church Fathers working with nonviolent assumptions.

You are chasing a myth created by early church fathers who constructed this story to attain some power and control of others chief.

It thus reads with new appreciation the allegorical explication of Scripture by Church Fathers of the first millennium and the theological explication of the Bible by medieval commentators, thereby practicing the ecumenism of time in its lectio divina and exegesis.

In the early Christian exercises aiming to instill virtues such as peace of mind and absence of the passions, and in the tradition of contemplative monasticism as developed by such fourth «century Church fathers as Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory Nazianzen, Hadot detects a strong whiff of Greek philosophical practice.

Is Thomas Jefferson guilty of anything different than what the early Church fathers did in the 4th century?

Konstan's account of friendship — which is historically, philologically, and philosophically informed — begins with Homeric Greece, proceeds through the classical and Hellenistic periods, discusses Roman views, and ends with some of the fourth — century church fathers in the world of late antiquity.

In this pedagogical pursuit, however, Calvin adopted, in concert with church fathers such as Irenaeus and Chrysostom, the rhetorical tradition of accommodation embodied in, among other classical writers, Cicero and Quintillian.

In the third century Church fathers like Tertullian and Cyprian held that sins committed after baptism dishonour God and that we need to offer him some «satisfaction» by way of compensation.

Peter Abelard's seminal work, Sic et non, which quoted Church Fathers on both sides of a series of theological questions, set the tone for the Questions genre of the Middle Ages, The writer set out a Question, stated the best arguments on both sides (thesis and antitheses), made a determination (synthesis), and then rebutted each of the antitheses in detail.

But Mari, Church history of replete with well - known Church leaders (even Church Fathers) tearing down those with whom they disagree if they disagree with orthodoxy.

I would not have called him «the great Church Father of Evangelical Christendom, the one genuine Doctor of the universal Church the modern era has known,» as the editors of the English edition of his Church Dogmatics did shortly after his death in 1968.

Indeed, in extensive commerce under the rule of law, St. Ephrem of Syria (306 — 373) and other Church Fathers saw the dependence of one country upon others, each having different products, each being indispensable to one another.

The early church father Origen Adamantius set a good example that these priests should follow.

Or which Church Fathers are to be thought correct?

The phenomenon that originated with John Nelson Darby is known as dispensational premillenialism to distinguish it from the historic premillennialist position held since Church Fathers like Justin Martyr and Irenaeus, through to contemporary theologians like George Eldon Ladd and Wayne Grudem.

Neoplatonism heavily influenced many well - known Church Fathers such as St Augustine and Origen.

The Early Church Fathers never suggested Christ would come again in two stages.

The Roman world could not hope to be converted if they were fingered as the perps, so the so - called Church Fathers wrote in the lines where the Jews take the blame; «Let it be on our heads and the heads of our children!»

One choice is to turn inward: to renounce Christianity, recalling the inquisitions, pogroms, crusades, cross-burnings and the instigations of anti-Semitism that were a part of Christianity from the days of the early Church Fathers through the Holocaust.

In the later part of the First Century the Early Church fathers recognized Peters position as set up by Christ Jesus.

Notable church fathers Tertullian and Augustine were convinced that Christmas preceded this pagan holiday.

A number of eastern church fathers have taught that God became human so that human beings might become divine.

While advancing to STL - level courses brought new opportunities, like studying Church Fathers and Scholastic theologians in their original languages, it also brought a new sense of isolation.

The early Church fathers got round this «problem» by highlighting Jesus» wisdom instead of his miracles.

Many of the early church fathers argued that gluttony was the original sin.

otherwise how can early church fathers quote from something that did not exist yet??????

Many early church fathers spoke of it as well... next time I will get you the lsit of them... either that or maybe you did nt pay attention?

One position asserted that the content and the wording of the creed are severable in fact, and that the fourth - century church fathers understood and intended it that way.

Except the early church father Justin Martyr admitted these pre-Jesus resurrection stories were known, but just sent ahead of Jesus, by Satan just to confuse Christians.

The early Church father Irenaeus said that «the glory of God is man fully alive.»

Furthermore we must note carefully that in the important work we have referred to, this theology is based on quotations from the Greek Church Fathers and councils — but there is almost no biblical foundation.

Church fathers often appealed to the liturgical practices of the church, its baptismal formula (Matt.

The early church fathers very harmoniously believed and taught that the entire bible was inspired by God (Gregg Allison's «Historical Theology» chapter 2 on the inspiration of scripture is one of many great resources on this topic).

The New Testament wasn't even «written» by one person; the early church fathers compiled it centuries after Christ, deciding what would be included and what would be left out.

I think Athanaius and some other early church fathers viewed sin as corporate thing, as opposed to the individualistic understanding which has now developed.

As theologians began to trace the influence of various Church Fathers and Councils upon each other, it became undeniable that a development occurred in understanding and defining the Christian message.

Many have suspected — even a few church fathers, like Cyril of Alexandria — that the Greek word kamelon (camel) might be a scribal error for kamilon (a heavy rope, a nautical cable), if only because the latter seems to make for a somewhat more symmetrical trope.

Prior to the time of the early church father Augustine, there is little evidence of discussion on the relationship of the synoptic gospels... and on side note of text book p. 47..

In consequence, the early Church Fathers began to apply the then philosophically uncontroversial term persona to the multiplicity found in God.

Gnosticism is commonly remembered as a hydra - headed heresy of the second century attacked at length by several church fathers.