How To Use Patristic In A Sentence
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Then just in time for Halloween, we even have a patristic discussion of ghosts!
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Contra Archdeacon Smiter, I'm glad Waldstein didn't go on for a few hundred more pages about J.P. Deuce's patristic sources.
Archive 2009-03-01
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The doctrine of the Trinity as we know it came about as the result of a lengthy theological process during the patristic era.
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Thus it is more like a volume of patristic exegesis of Scripture than a modern work of history or theology.
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The Mass is very ritualistic, filled with scriptural and what we would call 'patristic' allusions.
Westword | Complete Issue
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Here was a dilemma for the monkish student! whose vow of obedience to patristical guidance was thus sorely perplexed; he read and re-read, analyzed passage after passage, interpreted word after word; and yet, poor man, his laborious study was fruitless and unprofitable!
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
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This could theoretically have been suggestive of an alternative view, but to my knowledge this did not occur in the patristic era.
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The Immaculate Conception and the Assumption are rooted in the patristic axiom that Mary was the worthy Mother of God, a worthy tabernacle of the Most High.
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In his Confutation, he erred in citing two pseudonymous patristic texts, supposedly from St. Cyprian and St. Augustine.
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On the general principles of patristicism, it was fitting that this should be the case.
History of the Conflict between Religion and Science
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Since the patristic era, theologians have taught that at the heart of the eternal divine dynamic is the relationship between the first and second trinitarian persons.
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Christological question, an attitude whose heterodoxy was shrouded perhaps even from their own eyes in the beginning, by the specious distinction between natural and adoptive sonship; and it was a worthy tribute to the range of his patristic scholarship when Felix, the chief intellectual defender of Adoptionism, after the disputation with Alcuin at Aachen, acknowledged the error of his position.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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Thus it is more like a volume of patristic exegesis of Scripture than a modern work of history or theology.
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Further, in spite of the proliferation of weekday celebrations of lesser feasts, many Episcopalians lack even cursory knowledge of the early church and the patristic fathers.
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Here Rose collates the writings of the Church Fathers to give us ‘an Orthodox patristic commentary on Genesis’.
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The first is entitled ‘Ancient Origins,’ in which he traces the primitive and patristic eras of the Christian church.
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Her appeal to a range of sources within the tradition is laudable, particularly since patristic theologians had been neglected in her book until this point.
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Besides that, for the skeptical modern reader, or even for most Christians, it is more important to outline what assumptions underlie modern thought and how J.P. Deuce has answered, used, or rejected those assumptions, rather than to show how he has used patristic sources, which the skeptical modern reader, and even some Christians, won't care much about.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Pilgrimage, of course, is a staple of Christian piety whose roots stretch back into the early patristic period.
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Griesbach is found to have pursued the truly German plan of setting down _all_ the twenty-five MS.. (193) and _all_ the five Patristic authorities which up to his time had been cited as bearing on the genuineness of S. Mark xvi. 9-20: giving the former _in numerical order_, and stating generally concerning them that in one or other of those authorities it would be found recorded “that the verses in question were anciently _wanting_ in some, or in most, or in almost all the Greek copies, or in the most accurate ones: — or else that they were _found_ in a few, or in the more accurate copies, or in many, or in most of them, specially in the Palestinian Gospel.”
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark
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Aside from a few other brief references in patristic literature, nothing more was known of this apocryphon until the Latin manuscript containing a long portion of it was discovered by Ceriani in the Ambrosian Library, at Milan, and published by him in 1861.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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In pursuit of his theory Mazza ignores much evidence of somatic realism in patristic thought, in order to concentrate on those liturgies and theologians who saw the Eucharistic act in terms of typology and likeness.
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In 1418 John de Newton, the church treasurer, bequeathed to the Chapter a number of books, including Bibles, commentaries, and patristical and historical works, as well as Petrarch's De remediis utriusque fortunae. 5.43 They were chained to the library desks, and were guarded with horn and studs, to protect them from the consequences of careless use by readers.
Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages
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Though the term patristic belongs to the whole period here under consideration, as contrasted with the term scholastic applied to the Middle Ages, it may nevertheless be restricted to the period we are now describing.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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Is a recently written Eucharistic prayer, composed by a couple of self-proclaimed experts, a better statement of tradition than a conciliar creed which was itself an innovation in the patristic era?
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True enough, the language of impassibility is deeply embedded in patristic theology going back to Ignatius of Antioch.
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Apostolici, by Jacobson (Oxford, 1840), with a critical text and rich prolegomena and annotations, cannot be dispensed with by any Patristic inquirer.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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Anyone interested in the Cappadocian Fathers or patristic theology should find this book a pleasure to read and an excellent orientation to Gregory's life and work.
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This recognition set patristic Christianity on a collision course with classical politics.
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Fourth, the idea of patristic authority (auctoritas patrum or auctoritas sanctorum) juxtaposed the notion of authorization (the inspiration of the Fathers by Holy Scripture), the notion of persuasion apart from or prior to rational demonstration, the notion of personal expertise in the juristic formulation of a canonical faith, and the anthropological reverence for the elders (auctoritas maiorum as the respect due the fathers of a Christian doctrinal tradition).
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While the technical distinction between the latria due to God and the dulia permissible to the saints was only beginning to emerge in the patristic epoch, the consistent teaching of the Church, voiced as much by Polycarps devotees as by theologians like Augustine and Cyril of Alexandria, was that while the saints and martyrs deserved honor and devotion, only God could be worshiped.
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But for the elucidation of his character as a student, or a bibliomaniac, we naturally turn to the huge mass of his epistles which have been preserved; and in them we find a constant reference to books which shew his intimacy with the classics as well as the patristical lore of the church.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
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Are we placing the early patristic development upon a level of authority equal to that of Scripture?
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The patristic and medieval use of figural exegesis had a singular importance in the development of a Christian vision of the church.
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It is very probable that the origin of the capitular body may be found in the bishop's household, his familia, as it existed in patristic times.
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Patristic and medieval Christian theologians adopted but transformed philosophical eudaimonism by identifying happiness with post-mortem bliss: the beatific vision, or union with God.
Philip Reynolds: The Biblical Definitions Of The Pursuit Of Happiness
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The work will give strong impetus to the growing interest in the history of patristic exegesis in the English-speaking world.
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Not until the late nineteenth century was it understood that his attacks on late medieval scholasticism did not result from brash ignorance but from a proper understanding of traditional theology, especially patristic.
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There is ample evidence from apostolic times, from the patristic, canonical and liturgical tradition, well into the Byzantine period that this order was held in high honor.
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During the same period he also taught apologetics, church history, and patristics in the Bergamo seminary and had to survive a brief and unjust accusation of sympathy with Modernists.
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His works can be conveniently grouped in three classes: (1) Scriptural; (2) patristical; (3) controversial.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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It may also be said that patristic and medieval theologians also made liberal use of diverse sources.
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His youthful studies, which I have said before were pursued with unconquerable energy, embraced grammar, poetry, rhetoric, history, and the exposition of the Holy Scriptures; the Bible, indeed, he read unceasingly, and drew from it much of the vital truth with which it is inspired; but he perhaps too much tainted it with traditional interpretation and patristical logic.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
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Among other benefits, this dialogue brought the Orthodox theology of the patristic and early Byzantine period into renewed prominence in theological debates.
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The scholastics, in addition to condemning commerce on the authority of the patristic texts, condemned it also on the Aristotelean ground that it was a chrematistic art, and this consideration, as we have seen above, enters into Aquinas's article on the subject. [
An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching
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In the patristic period, the Tetragrammaton played little role in Christian theology, largely because of linguistic obstacles.
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3.10 About the same time Abbot Benedict ordered the transcription of sixty volumes, containing one hundred titles, for his library at Peterborough. 3.11 By 1244, in spite of losses in the fire of 1184, Glastonbury had a library of some four hundred volumes, historical books consorting with romances, Bibles and patristical works almost crowding out some forlorn classics. 3.12 Nearly half a century later
Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages
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Like his nationality, the maleness of Jesus has no Christological significance in patristic tradition.
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Other sources, give the biblical, patristic and theological arguments for this better than me though.
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But there were many cloistered Christians who studied the bible undisturbed by these shadows and doubts, and who, heedless of patristical lore and saintly wisdom, devoured the spiritual food in its pure and uncontaminating simplicity -- such students, humble, patient, devoted, will be found crowding the monastic annals, and yielding good evidence of the same by the holy tenor of their sinless lives, their Christian charity and love.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
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Regina Einig asked the chairman of the German Mariological society, professor of dogmatics and patristics at Lugano,
Te Deum laudamus!
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In one of his letters we find him referring to nearly all the celebrated authors of the church, and so aptly, that we conclude he must have had their works on his desk, and was deeply read in patristical theology.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
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Despite Tertullian's remark regarding this pseudograph, it enjoyed an immense and persistent popularity through the patristic period and the Middle Ages.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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Roger Pearse on his self-named blog discusses a find of Coptic manuscripts from 1910, how patristic authors discussed inerrancy and notes errors in J.A. Cranmer's edition of patristic catenae.
Hyperekperissou
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When extreme ascetism was in vogue in the patristic period you had nutcases like Phibionites outside the Church and watered down nuts for ascetism like Tertullian within (till he left).
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Patristik (Nuremberg, 1833-4); the older distinction in Germany between patrology, the knowledge of the Fathers and their use, and patristic, the science of the theology of the Fathers, is now somewhat antiquated; BUSSE, Grundriss der chr.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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The Spirit of Early Christian Thought does not suggest that the patristic era represents the whole of the tradition.
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Advanced classes study the classical works of the most influential writers of the Patristic, Medieval, Reformation and Modern periods.
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W. Jaeger, “Parrhesia et fiducia,” in Studia Patristica, I
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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In other words, we must do here and now what our theological forebears-including our patristic and monastic forebears-did there and then.
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Will R. Huysman on the Catholic Patristics starts off his new blog with a series of patristic catenae on a series of topics.
Hyperekperissou
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But the connection of the image of God with the human body is rejected explicitly by all the patristic writers as anthropomorphous.
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It is a commonplace of our patristic tradition that the image of God is only one and the image of God is his only-begotten Son, our Christological archetype.
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Virtually all types of medieval book are represented - Bibles, Psalters, antiphonaries, missals, patristic and philosophical texts, devotional works, and over fifty Books of Hours.
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In them he comments on the texts of sacred Scripture presented by the liturgy, using the Patristic-Medieval interpretation of the four meanings: the literal or historical, the allegorical or Christological, the tropological or moral, and the anagogic, which guides to eternal life.
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The hymns for the feasts of Christ and his Mother constitute a course in patristic Christology and Trinitarian theology.
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It is, as is to be expected in an encyclical, a reprise of Catholic teaching on the Eucharist, drawing richly on scriptural, patristic, and conciliar sources.
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Rather than imposing their own agenda onto Scripture, the scholastics were following long-standing patristic traditions of interpretation.
