Sentences with phrase «early church fathers»

The Gospel of the Hebrews is known only through quotations from it given in the writing of early church fathers.

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

This self - examination is based on a clearly delineated psychology of will that Gregory had learned from earlier church fathers (Tertullian, Jerome, Augustine) but had himself developed and refined.28 According to this psychology, the dynamics of guilt and self - alienation occur in three distinguishable stages, analogous to the fall of Adam.

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?

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

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

Even though history clearly speaks to Paul dying at the hands of Nero, all the apostles except John being murdered, and early church fathers such as Polycarp being killed by Rome?

There are even early church fathers that have influenced what we believe today who did not believe Adam and Eve were literal people, but allegorical symbols of the sinfulness of all humanity.

The product of a church history of sex negative hysteria started by deeply disturbed early church fathers bearing little to no basis in honest scriptural teaching.

The simple fact that we have a canon of Scripture, which was compiled and organized by various early Church Fathers, and became a tradition, shows that we must, to some degree, accept and depend upon some forms of Church Tradition.

Theologian Alister McGrath recounts that the bishops and early church fathers reached this understanding of the doctrine of the Trinity by looking at the scripture, including Matthew 28:19 («baptizing them in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit») and 2 Corinthians 13:14 («May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all»), for signs of God's «pattern of divine activity.»

This is how St. Atbanasius of Alexandra and some of the other early church fathers explained the meaning of incarnation.

up above you see my collection of early church fathers.

Meanwhile, the Catholic Church has only encouraged me to question why things are and to read the Early Church Fathers, the Catechism, and of course... the Bible.

It was not quoted as authoritative by the early church fathers.

Ms. Knust's views are completely outside of teachings of the Early Church Fathers, as well as Orthodox Christianity through the ages.

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.

Please consider studying the history of your religion by reading the writings of the early church fathers to see that your stance suggests a very limited and inaccurate view of the church's teaching on salvation.

Interestingly, if you look at the doctrines of the early church fathers before the creeds, they are very Mormon - like.

St. John Chrystosom, an early Church father, wrote: «Priests have received a power which God has given neither to angels nor to archangels.

Does this mean we should stop reading the early church fathers?

When the early church fathers spoke of God's apatheia (often translated «impassability»), what they had in mind was God's constancy, reliability, and complete sovereignty over everything that exists outside of himself.

Going back to the early church fathers and Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, Thatcher argues that children should be «regarded as evidence of the blessing of God on marriage.»

Yes, but have you read the early Church Fathers?

Maybe you should go back and read the early church fathers, the men who learned the faith from the apostles and see what they have to say on this issue.

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

Nearly every book in the New Testament states the author, and we have the early Church Fathers who wrote and verified nearly the entire new Testamant.

A few years ago Pope Benedict XVI gave a series of lectures on the early church fathers, and they have been collected into a book: Church Fathers: From Clement of Rome to Augustine.

Evangelicals have been blessed with the recent increase of studies on the early church fathers.

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

Some of the early church fathers compared such anointing to the anointing of the body of a wrestler before he entered the arena to fight his opponent.

«Then I discovered the early Church Fathers — and discovered that they were Catholic, that they taught the Catholic faith.

the reminder that Orthodox theology continually refreshes its thinking by reference to the early Church Fathers, who were much concerned with the question of God's activity in the other sects and traditions and in the wisdom of humankind.

I The early Church father Tertullian asked a famous question, one that has been asked again and again in the history of the Church, and that I would like to ask again: «What does Athens have to do with Jerusalem?»

Eusebius — one of the early Church fathers — encouraged the laity in the Church to seek the common good in all they did in the wider community.

In the case of the Bible, Textual Criticism, starting with the early church fathers who were students of the Apostles, the Bible could be pieced together just from their quotations.

At that point we moderns simply have to part company with the early church fathers.»

In fact, by confusing Tradition with traditionalism and radically opposing the Scriptures to Tradition, much of the Christian wisdom Tradition, beginning with the writings of the early Church Fathers (& Mothers) and continuing even into modern time, the Protestant Reformers have cut much of the Western Church off from the ongoing Revelation of the Christian wisdom Tradition.

They believed that Scripture should be studied in conjunction with the rest of the community of the Saints, especially those Early Church Fathers who helped develop the Creeds of Nicaea and Chalcedon.

Then, by looking at the existing manuscripts today, and piecing together what we have and comparing it to a modern Bible such as the NASB, it is not hard at all to see that the Bible that we hold in our hands today is the same doc.ument quoted by the early church fathers who researched and verified all that they could.

I believe one of the reasons is because several of the «core» calvinistic beliefs were called out as heresy by the earliest church fathers.

I may be not very orthodox but I think that one of the worst mistakes the early Church Fathers did was to accept the Apocalypsis (Revelations) as a Canonigal book.

And what is almost comical, those who criticize my beliefs, also condemn the same group who carried the scripture from the early Church fathers, translated to the Vulgate and through to the Reformation.