Sentences with phrase «famous early church»

Eusebius (260 - 340), the famous early Church historian, recounted in his The History of the Church how an apostate named Natalis came to Pope Zephyrinus clothed in sackcloth and ashes begging forgiveness.

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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?»

I am using here the famous words of Vincent of Lerins, a Christian scholar of the early Church.

Returning to Augustine and the early Church, Steinmetz shows how the famous theory of the fourfold sense of Scripture, an approach widely used in the Middle Ages, was a way of taking seriously the words and sayings of Scripture, including implicit meanings that extend beyond the original intentions of the human authors.

Rebuilt several times, the current church dates from 1896 but retains features and artefacts from earlier incarnations and is notable for its pictorial stained - glass windows and woodwork created by the famous craftsman Robert «Mouseman» Thompson.

[11][20] Most famous is the «Torqued Ellipse» series, which began in 1996 as single elliptical forms inspired by the soaring space of the early 17th century Baroque church San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane in Rome.

In fact, they were only the most famous of the «primitivist» movements within the church that included the earlier Cathari, Waldensians, and Humiliati.