Sentences with phrase «of early church fathers»

I know that sometimes the sacraments are confusing but I do ask you to read the other scriptures that support confession and writing of the early church fathers.

Many of the early church fathers believed Jesus was talking about Satan, but a few thought He was referring to God.

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.

For me personally, I'm not arguing that the Bible is inspired so that I can back up some interpretation I have of it, I have read some of these early church fathers myself and I never picked up on them saying it was inspired to back up an interpretation they had either (although I'm sure some did).

Again, I'm not a scholar so I won't be arguing whether a certain word is a verb or a noun, but more importantly looking at what the early Christians believed since many of the early Church Fathers were disciples of the Apostles.

We use what is called the Ecclesial method, reflecting the methodology of the early Church Fathers.

If you go back to some of those early Church fathers of the Western tradition, there's some pretty crazy stuff about women in their writing.

A theological position that has neither scriptural support, nor the support of the Early Church Fathers.

Oden tells how his fascination with modernity has been replaced with a fascination for the thought of the early church fathers.

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.

Many of the early church fathers argued that gluttony was the original sin.

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.

Does he question whether we can know for certain the writings of the early Church fathers?

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.

In the question - answer session that followed the lecture, Pannenberg called on Christian theologians to follow the lead of the early church fathers and offer a more creative approach to the task of doing theology in the face of the world's injustices than that found in Marxist - oriented liberation theologies.

It seems, however, that many of the early church fathers didn't mention this practice (as far as I've read, mostly from Augustine).

Eliade's sources, which gave theological coating to his creative work, came largely from the writings of the early Church Fathers.

up above you see my collection of early church fathers.

I don't call myself «Christian» anymore, because I definitely don't believe most of the basic tenets of the church that have been put forth for two thousand years from the time of the early church fathers, through the development of the Eastern Orthodox patriarchs, and that have been kept by both Roman Catholic and Protestant churches.

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.

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.

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

Unlike Anselm's legalistic theory of the Atonement, the writings of the Early Church Fathers teach theosis or deification, the realization of our human potential for godlikeness through a relational participation in the Divine Life, as the source of our redemption in Christ:

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

Prior to the time of the early church father Augustine, there is little evidence of discussion on the relationship of the synoptic gospels... and on side note of text book p. 47..

Not exact matches

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

«In Early Christian art and Early Medieval art it is found in both the East and Western churches, and represents either Christ, or sometimes God the Father as part of the Trinity.

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.

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?

This living tradition includes the early creeds, the ecumenical councils, and the writings of the Fathers of the Church.

Many want to get back as quickly as possible to the early church to reclaim a common patrimony for all Christians in the fathers and mothers of the church of the first few centuries.

He believed his chances for faith had been hurt by his father, the early loss of his mother, the air of unbelief in the Church of his youth, even the «terrible» liturgy and the modernized music (pitfalls he counted «inherent in Protestantism»).

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.»

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

If one reads the writings of the early Christian fathers in the times before the Bible was officially compiled, you will see how the church «operated» back then.

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.

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 Auguchurch fathers, and they have been collected into a book: Church Fathers: From Clement of Rome to Augfathers, and they have been collected into a book: Church Fathers: From Clement of Rome to AuguChurch Fathers: From Clement of Rome to AugFathers: From Clement of Rome to Augustine.

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

I find it interesting how mega-church prosperity teachers want to talk about the very early days of the church of mega-crowds — without talking about their scattering — and how the persecuted church grew in people's homes and catacombs (I like the rhyme) for the next 300 years — until Constantine — the true father of many mega-church ministries.

Looks just like the Church now... read «The Faith of the Early Fathers».

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?

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.

The Imitation of Christ, commenting on the early Fathers of the Church, notes «how scrupulously they kept the fasts» having called attention to «the long and arduous temptations they had to suffer.»

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?»

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.

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.

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.