patristic in English

adjective
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of or relating to the early Christian theologians or to patristics.
The hymns for the feasts of Christ and his Mother constitute a course in patristic Christology and Trinitarian theology.
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1. Breviaries With a 2-Year Cycle of Patristic Readings

2. Leclecq, "Amulettes," in DACL 1.2 ( 1905) 1787-1790 conveniently summarizes much of the patristic evidence

3. But the connection of the image of God with the human body is rejected explicitly by all the patristic writers as Anthropomorphous

4. To interpret Scripture he suggests the traditional patristic and medieval structure, namely, the literal and historical sense first of all, then the allegorical and anagogical and, lastly, the moral.

5. The Archive contains well o ver a thousand documents specific to Gnostic studies, including translations all the classical Gnostic scriptures and patristic documents relevant to early Gnostic movements

6. Such evidence . . . is seen in the many epitaphs, anaphorae, litanies, liturgical documents, acts of the martyrs, and in the frequent allusions encountered in Oriental, Greek, and Latin patristic literature.”

7. Anti-Apollinarian Writings (Fathers of the Church Patristic Series) Hardcover – December 4, 2015 by Robin Orton (Translator) See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions

8. The faith in the real presence as brought about by a mysterious change Antedates the Scholastic formulation of the doctrine, as is shown by the use of equivalent terms in the patristic writers.

9. Concentrating on Alcuin's early years in Northumbria and then his time at the Carolingian court, Bullough reassesses the chronology of Alcuin's career and writings, assesses his use of patristic and insular writings, and explores the contemporary significance of his large output

10. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Collectanea satis copiosa (Latin: ‘The Sufficiently Abundant Collections’) was a collection of scriptural, historical, and patristic texts that was compiled to provide royal propagandists with arguments justifying Henry VIII's personal and England's provincial independence from Rome.

11. In these Sermons he commented on the texts of Scripture presented by the Liturgy, using the patristic and medieval interpretation of the four senses: the literal or historical, the allegorical or Christological, the tropological or moral, and the anagogical, which orients a person to eternal life.

12. Among the topics are the world as Cenobium: Greek Patristic foundations of the contemplation of nature in Eastern Christianity, what was new about commemoration in the Iosifo-Volokolamskii monastery, Old Believers and icons, Russian foreign policy and the change of dynasty in Greece 1862-64, and how the Orthodox Philokalic tradition came to modern (literary) America.