Sentences with phrase «early church fathers who»

In fact, you can even find some early church fathers who seem to have supported subordinationism before the Nicene Creed was affirmed.

Process theology, or what Charles Hartshorne prefers to call neo-classical theology, has links with the theology of the early church fathers who were influenced by Greek thought, Socinus in the sixteenth century and the philosopher A. N. Whitehead of this century, who took science more seriously than his contemporary philosophers and theologians.

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

Unlike many of the early church fathers who, under the influence of Greek philosophy, sought to identify the image of God with human reason, Niebuhr, following Augustine, saw the image of God as the self - conscious and self - transcendent character of man's whole self.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

For this all the pope is responsible, who has access to the records of the ecu - menical councils and the epistles of the fathers of the true Early Church and of course the Holy Bible.

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 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.

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.

The early Church read the Old Testament as the Word of God, a book about the triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the God who «was and is and is to come.»

Bunge recalls the early church father John Chrysostom's metaphor of parents as «artists» who sculpt statues.

As to what is being preached and taught: Consider the example of one of the early «church fathers», Origen, who was a Gentile Christian from Alexandria.

Many of the early «Church Fathers» were highly influenced by the pagan Greek ideas of Plato and Aristotle, who taught the immortal soul idea.

Moreover, it is worth noting that although an innovator in some ways, using methods unique at the time, Philip always drew on the oldest sources of Christian devotion — indeed, Newman dubbed him «Man of primitive times», who would have been at home among the earliest Christians or the Church Fathers.

I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...

When you read the sermon transcriptions of the early church fathers, especially those of St. John Chrysostom (aka «Golden Tongue») when he taught through books of the Bible, it becomes clear that while the «Teacher» did most of the speaking, there was a lot of interaction with those who were there to hear him.

The Christian Doctrine of Deification Edward T. Jones From early Church Fathers... «this (deification) they (all early Church Fathers) regard as a point beyond dispute, as one of those fundamentals which no one who calls himself a Christian dreams of denying.»»

Nevertheless, the first and even the subsequent early councils were not called at random but because there were people ---- like Arius, Sabellius, the Nestorians (though not Nestorius), and others ---- who were teaching things about Jesus, the Father, or the Holy Spirit that, so far as our evidence can tell us, were not being taught by the majority of the Church.

The ADL press release complains about «certain Church figures» who are responsible for the «Christianization of the Holocaust,» citing the canonization of Edith Stein and, earlier, of the heroic Father Maximilian Kolbe who, in a drive - by smear, the ADL implies was an anti-Semite.

The ethos of the early Church is a mentality of direct and living union with God, the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, who operates with a transforming power through ministers and through matter, through sacramental signs which are causative outwardly of the gift they effect inwardly, and especially through the Eucharist [18].

When, in the earliest days of the Church, men and women who had been converted to Christianity were to be welcomed into membership in the Christian fellowship, incorporated into the Church, it was required that they should profess their belief in Christ as the Messiah — which is to say, God's special representative for the establishment of His kingdom among men — and as the Son of God — that is, as uniquely related to the Father of all mankind.

The following «thy will be done, on earth as in heaven» in Matthew is doubtless liturgical explication, but the petition itself differs from the Kaddish petition, «May he establish his kingdom in your lifetime and in your days and in the lifetime of all the house of Israel, even speedily and at a near time», which it parallels in sentiment, in ways which are characteristic of Jesus, not the early Church: the brevity of formulation (cf. «Father [abba]» versus «Our Father who art in heaven»); the intimate «Thy» for the formal «his»; and the use of the verb «to come» rather than «to establish» (the early Church prayed for the coming of the Lord, not the Kingdom, cf. I Cor.

The proximity was recognized in the early Church by those who treated the writings of the Apostolic Fathers as scripture or called their authors «apostolic men» (apostolici).