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[ adjective ] of or relating to the writings of the early church fathers
Synonyms Used in print (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)The actual function of patristic civilian canonist scholastic communism was adequately set_forth by St._Gregory almost a millennium before More wrote Utopia . In_contrast_to this Stoic patristic view , Utopia implies that the nature of man is such that to rely_on individual conscience to supply the deficiencies of municipal law is to embark on the bottomless sea of human sinfulness in a sieve . Related terms |
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