Sentences with phrase «other early church fathers»

I think Athanaius and some other early church fathers viewed sin as corporate thing, as opposed to the individualistic understanding which has now developed.

This is how St. Atbanasius of Alexandra and some of the other early church fathers explained the meaning of incarnation.

Like other early church fathers, the author warns Christians against overemphasis on dress or cosmetics.

Not exact matches

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.

Just as St. Paul's letters gave early Christian commentators examples of how to interpret the Old Testament in light of Christ, so the Church Fathers stretch our exegetical imagination by showing how other passages can be read in that way.

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

Ratzinger and other like - minded scholars believed that aggiornamento needed to be combined with ressourcement - a «return to the sources» of Catholic theology in the Scriptures and in the early Fathers of the Church.

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.

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.