Sentences with phrase «early church fathers such»

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?

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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.

That God is love, and love requires social justice is a constant teaching of the Fathers of the Early Church such as Clement of Alexandria, Basil the Great, John Chrysostom, Ambrose and Augustine.

In contrast, however, far from carefully analysing such things, his treatment fails to distinguish between the views of theologians, the opinions of early Church Fathers, and the status of various statements from popes and councils.

What is remarkable is that some early «Jewish Christian» sects — such as the Ebionites — held the same view, as we learn from the heresiographies of the Church Fathers.

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.

That such a tradition as Käsemann describes existed in the early Church is clear enough, and that these sayings are at home in it is shown both by their form, the two - part sentence with the same verb in each referring to present action and eschatological judgement respectively, and by the fact that a Christian prophet makes use of one of them in Rev. 3.5 b («I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels»).

But a theological inquiry that narrows the historical community, that excludes from the conversation such men as the early Fathers of the Church, or the medieval theologians, or the Reformers, or the sectarians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, or the Puritans, Pietists and social gospelers, or such movements as monasticism, scholasticism, Biblicism, et cetera impoverishes itself from the beginning.