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church_father
has definitions from the fields of religion,theology
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[ noun ] (religion,theology) an early writer accepted as an authority on the teachings and practices of the Christian church
Synonyms Used in print (Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)Perhaps no church_father saw this concurrence of the unique and the universal as clearly , or formulated it as precisely , as Irenaeus . (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)This conception was taken_up by the early Church_Fathers and by canon lawyers and theologians in the Middle_Ages ; and More was far too well_read not to have come_across it in one or several of the forms thus given it . What that spirit and attitude were we can best understand if we see more precisely how it contrasts with the communist tradition with the longest continuous history , the one which reached Christianity by_the_way_of Stoicism through the Church_Fathers of Late Antiquity . |
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