Sentences with phrase «of church fathers»

Furthermore, in writings of the Church Fathers, titles of other Gospels are mentioned, and excerpts from them are quoted.»

However, several of the church fathers provide information about him.

Inevitably, heirs as they were of the Greco - Roman world in both its pre-Christian and its Christian stages, the schoolmen utilized the forms of thought developed by the Greeks, the creeds shaped in the early centuries, of the faith, the writings of the Church Fathers of those years, and always with reference to the Bible.

To assume that the early Fathers were immune from these influences or that traces of this cultural milieu are not to be found in the writings of the Church Fathers would be naive indeed.

The changes in the liturgy are rooted in the theological stirrings after World War I: the gradual breakdown of neo-Scholastic metaphysics, the beginning of Catholic biblical scholarship, and a return to the study of the church fathers.

The Quaker writer Richard Foster extols the otium sanctum, the «holy leisure,» of the Church Fathers.

Studies of early Christian baptisms, as reflected in Pauline letters and writings of the church fathers, indicate that converts to the faith wore a garment symbolic of the old life, and when they arose from baptism their new life was symbolized by the donning of a white garment.

He does not acknowledge that many of the Church Fathers were millennial (Irenaeus, Tertullian, Hippolytus).

From my own peculiar point of vantage I sense that many Christians may be missing something — a message hidden in Scripture, in the words of the church fathers, and in the deliberations at Vatican II — without which our attempts at interfaith dialogue will be of little or no avail.

We find it in the prophetic tradition in the Old Testament, in the teaching of Jesus and elsewhere in the New Testament and in the writings of the church fathers.

The translator, Boniface Ramsey, O.P., is a seasoned student of the church fathers and an accomplished translator; for this task, it is not beside the point to note that he is also a pastor of a large urban parish, and thus able to present Cassian as he was intended to be read, as a guide to the Christian life.

Compared to some other recent projects of Protestant ressourcement — such as the «Lutheran Catholicism» of Carl Braaten and Robert Jenson, Hans Boersma's Reformed reception of the nouvelle théologie, and Sarah Coakley's Anglican, feminist retrieval of the Church Fathers — this is a project with a conservative profile (although the essays are diverse in this respect, too).

For example, didn't the Catholic church think it was a bad idea for the common people to have the Bible, so they could read it directly instead of the church fathers presenting it to them?

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.

The language is not that of ecstatic mystical marriage, it is that of St Paul and the Apocalypse, and of the Church Fathers.

For from the time of the church fathers onward, the reflections of theologians have been shaped by philosophical concepts and ways of thought — sometimes for good, sometimes for ill.

Some theologians argue that NT account is ahistorical because there is no corroborating evidence outside the New Testament or the writings of the Church fathers.

This is all clearly recorded in the works of the Church Fathers, and it just amazes me how many evangelicals have never bothered to read this history.

The proof of this claim is found simply in looking at the writings of the Church Fathers who developed the doctrine.

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

In it, as an ancient prayer from the age of the church fathers puts it, «the mystery of Christ's dispensation is accomplished so far as in us lies.»

Such a misunderstanding is easy, for the language of the church fathers who formulated this doctrine was different from ours, and it defies simple interpretation.

: The Reception of the Church Fathers in Puritanism by Ann - Stephane Schäfer Peter Lang, 449 pages, $ 109.95 It is well known that the New England Puritan divines took great pride in their libraries.

Thanks to the labors of Jean Daniélou, Henri de Lubac, and Claude Mondésert, French speakers have available the rich series Sources Chrétiennes, well over five hundred volumes of inexpensive paperbacks that allow ordinary Christians to read the writings not only of the Church Fathers but also of major thinkers outside the fold of orthodoxy (Origen, above all) and of spiritual writers (Bernard of Clairvaux, for instance).

This is not even to mention actual extant manuscripts of the New Testament — in whole or in part — that date to the first few Christian centuries, and extensive quotations in the writings of the Church Fathers, which run all the way back to the days when the generation contemporary to the alleged events of the New Testament were still alive.

It may seem bad form to single out what might appear to be small potatoes from the rich and delectable stew that is an otherwise very thoughtful, hopeful, and encouraging essay pleading for a return to the writings of the Church Fathers («The Return of the Fathers,» November).

Western philosophy was lost here and only came back to us in the writings of the Muslims and those philosophers were extremely influential in shaping Western thought including, and particularly, the writings of the Church Fathers.

Pondering Bonhoeffer's Life Together, he says, «I almost feel I am in the world of the Church fathers.

«The theology of every age must be sufficiently strong and free to hear, calmly, attentively, and openly, not only the voices of the Church Fathers, not only the voices of its favorites, not only the voices of classical antiquity, but all the voices of the past in its entirety.

(Hence the common refrain of the Church Fathers: philosophy is always in labor but never able to give birth.)

Same with the writings of the church fathers, saints, and Christian authors.

He thought that it was possible to strip away the metaphysical doctrines of the church fathers and the mythological stories of the first Christians to reach a Lord whose impact would transform modern lives.

Jesus also states you can not have two masters Matt 6:24 yet Paul states to obey the government in Romans 13:1 - 7, which many of the church fathers of the 2 - 4th centuries disagreed with because they were getting killed by the Roman government right and left.

At Oxford, Newman dabbled briefly in liberalism, then was rescued from it by his study of the Church Fathers.

Few of the Church Fathers even mention it, and it seems that the only group that loved John as much as the evangelicals now do were the gnostics, and we know what the early Church did to them.

The description of each of the station churches begins with suggested Bible readings and other texts from the commentaries and sermons of the church fathers, followed by a meditation.

Here is a comment that reflects very well the historic Evangelical view of the Church Fathers.

: The Reception of the Church Fathers in Puritanism by Ann - Stephane Schäfer Peter Lang, 449 pages, $ 109.95

I am well aware of the writings in the Early Church, apocrypha, nostic gospels, writings of the Church Fathers.

20, 10) still discernible in Augustine's City of God and political writings — perhaps the best (i.e., most well — executed) instance of a Church Father justifying war in the face of the «nonviolent assumptions» held by his forebears and some contemporaries.

The same thing has been said of the church my father and stepmother attend, and while I split from Christianity a long time ago, I can acknowledge that church is doing a lot of great things.

Not exact matches

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In his speeches, Gibbs, a pastor until he became disillusioned with church politics, evokes his teenage years of drugs, petty crime, and a family environment in which his father repeatedly threatened to kill himself.

The exemption of credit from such royal Clean Slate proclamations shows a policy distinction between productive and unproductive credit — the contrast that medieval Church Fathers would draw between interest and usury.

We also rely on tradition, with many writings and reflections of the Fathers of the Church, such as those of Saint Augustine.

When our fore fathers came up with the idea of seperation of church and state it wasn't to keep religion out of the government it was to keep the Church from running the goverchurch and state it wasn't to keep religion out of the government it was to keep the Church from running the goverChurch from running the government.

The USA is a place that is free from any kind of religious classification and official religious sponsorship, primarily because the founding fathers didn't want the church to have control on par with that of the church in England.

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.

Father Michele Madonna's requested permission from local police to fix the # 40 device on the wall of the church.

«I have written to the Holy Father and assured him, as the successor of St Peter and supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church, of my loyal and filial love, and of my intention to give myself entirely to the service of the Diocese of Leeds.