Sentences with word «patristic»

The retrieval of patristic sources in the sixteenth century was not merely the happy product of Renaissance humanist learning, although of course it was that as well.

The translator's introduction points out that Fount of Knowledge is one of the most «important single works produced in the Greek patristic period,... offering as it does an extensive and lucid synthesis of the Greek theological science of the whole period.

Paul's image of Christ as victor over demons was also prominent in patristic literature.

The phrase «the Paschal mystery» occurs frequently: it is quite modern, from the writings of Louis Bouyer in 1945 (p. 87), but it is rooted in the earliest Patristic tradition.

he unmasked the Platonic sources of patristic theology.

More recently, the late Thomas C. Oden, with his work on patristic exegesis and his call for paleo - orthodoxy, has inspired many in this direction, both within and beyond his own Methodist tradition.

Echoes of astral and angelomorphic immortality persist in the New Testament, rabbinic literature, early patristic writings, and Jewish mysticism, whence they enter the full stream of Jewish and Christian thought.

Thank you Shelly, the richness of patristic literature is an ancient reminder that there is nothing new under the sun!

According to the prevailing patristic exegesis of that passage, then, it is this universal mortality that makes personal sinfulness inevitable.

The observance of these three days reminds Christians of a common patristic heritage and the way reformation and renewal can both reshape and fracture that heritage.

The Reformers vigorously protested what they viewed as deviations from biblical teaching, but they never used Scripture to undermine the Trinitarian and Christological consensus of the early Church embodied in the historic creeds that had come down from patristic times.

Philip Melanchthon was one of the great patristic scholars of the age, and John Calvin was not far behind him.

Other patristic writers emphasized Christ as illuminator, Christ as example, the life of Christ as a form of moral instruction, or Christ as provider of incorruption and deification.

The ground to be covered in this volume includes discussions of the biblical, historical and patristic understandings of the love of God and human love as they encounter both ancient and contemporary theology and philosophy.

Norman Russell's authoritative Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition (OUP, 2004) shows that the Fathers never treated Jesus and human beings as Mormons do — that is, as the same kind of beings or of the same species, with Jesus having moved further along than the rest of us.

This is the almost universal patristic perspective written about, preached and taught by canonised Fathers of the Church in both Greek and Latin.

He offers some elements of patristic interpretation.

Patristic authors tended to see the whole incarnation as crucial to redemption; crucifixion and resurrection were understood as two moments in the same process.

By emphasizing the temporality implied in the concept of paroikia the New Testament conveyed the alien nature of parish in its larger setting and the sojourning of Christian groups in the world.13 By patristic times, however, the spatial aspect of paroikia also proved useful because it designated the prolonged physical existence of Christian community in the world.

There can be little doubt that this is the earliest patristic theology which is still taught explicitly in the Eastern Church.

Patristic commentators on the redemptive death of the Son of God emphasized the need for a sacrifice great enough to atone for the sinfulness of humanity (cf. Col. 1:14) Neither ritual animal sacrifices nor human suffering could achieve this end.

«If the contest,» Calvin declared, «were to be determined by patristic authority, the tide of victory - to put it very modestly - would turn to our side» volume 20, «Prefatory Address to King Francis,» 4 (P. 18)

Virgilio Pacioni OSA, Visiting Professor at the Augustinianum, Patristic Institute of the Pontifical Lateran University, is to be congratulated for this remarkable work, first published in Italian in 2004.

Character precedes argument — something that Origen and the other patristic writers recognized.

After I transferred to Heidelberg to complete my studies, my inclination to combine philosophy and theology was greatly encouraged by closer acquaintance with patristic thought.

Bynum contends that this was never the position of Western catholic or Eastern patristic theology.

In his preface to the Popular Patristics publication of On the Incarnation, C.S. Lewis writes «It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in - between.

In his preface to the Popular Patristics publication of On the Incarnation, C.S. Lewis writes «It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another...

There are about 4,700 New Testament manuscripts and at least 100,000 patristic quotations or allusions.

Some, like patristic ideas of Jesus» death as a ransom to the devil or a clever trap for him, are largely museum pieces for most Christians.

The emergence of Evangelical Catholicism is a Spirit - led development reflecting the cultural contingencies of history, like other such evolutions over the past two millennia: the evolution from the primitive Church to the Church of the Fathers; the evolution from patristic Catholicism to medieval Catholicism; the development of Counter-Reformation Catholicism (the Church in which anyone over sixty today was raised) from medieval Catholicism.

Athanasius, whose exchange formula is most often quoted («He became human that we might become divine» [On the Incarnation 54]-RRB-, shows most emphatically that Mormon deification is qualitatively different from patristic deification.

Luther's theology was deeply shaped by his scholastic, monastic, and patristic predecessors; he was creative, but his creativity lay especially in his fresh grasp of traditional problems and in his innovative use of traditional resources to address those problems.

Mather wrote a huge commentary on the Bible, Biblia Americana, in which he marshaled such patristic writers as Origen, Basil, and Augustine in support of a «spiritual» as well as «literal» interpretation of the first chapter of Genesis.

Luther's impatient arguments for the reform of sacramental practice and theology, and his frequent vilification of received usages and opinions, should not therefore be allowed to obscure what might be called his «deep catholic» commitment to the sacramentality of grace, with its unmistakable Patristic resonances.

This approach also ignores the fact that the Reformation itself was an age of great patristic ressourcement, to use a phrase often associated with the Second Vatican Council.

guyFromVA Here is another interpretation: To make clear that being a Christian truly involves communion with the Three Persons of the Holy Trinity within the household of God, one ought to use biblical and patristic terms.