The Apostolic Fathers, also known as the Ante-Nicene Fathers, were core Christian theologians among the Church Fathers who lived in the 1st and 2nd centuries...

The Church Fathers, Early Church Fathers, Christian Fathers, or Fathers of the Church were ancient and influential Christian theologians and writers who...

Greek are called the Greek (Church) Fathers. Famous Greek Fathers of second century (other than the Apostolic Fathers) include: Irenaeus of Lyons and Clement...

history. The earliest Church Fathers, within two generations of the Twelve Apostles of Christ, are usually called Apostolic Fathers for reportedly knowing and...

Holy Apostles Apostolic succession, the doctrine connecting the Christian Church to the original Twelve Apostles The Apostolic Fathers, the earliest generation...

other writings attributed to the Apostolic Fathers, were once considered scriptural by various early Church fathers. They are still being honored in some...

traditionally claimed authority deriving, by apostolic succession, from the Twelve Apostles. Early Church Fathers who came to be associated with apostles –...

Apocryphal New Testament, itself a reprint of a translation of the Apostolic Fathers done in 1693 by William Wake, who later became the Archbishop of Canterbury...

as a bishop of Smyrna. Polycarp is regarded as one of three chief Apostolic Fathers, along with Clement of Rome and Ignatius of Antioch. The sole surviving...

earliest Church Fathers (within two generations of the Apostles of Christ) are usually called the Apostolic Fathers. Important Apostolic Fathers include Clement...

Ante-Nicene Fathers Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Ancient Christian Writers Ludwig Schopp, ed. (1947). The Apostolic Fathers. The Fathers of the Church...

of Constantinople in AD 381: "[We believe] in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church." This ecumenical creed is today recited in the liturgies of the...

marked with a lozenge (♦) are included in the collection known as the Apostolic Fathers: Epistle of Barnabas ♦ First Epistle of Clement ♦ Second Epistle of...

flesh suffered for our sins and which the Father raised up". During the same time period as the Apostolic Fathers, Christians were also producing works claiming...

20:17, Titus 1:5–7 and 1 Peter 5:1. The earliest writings of the Apostolic Fathers, the Didache and the First Epistle of Clement, for example, show the...

second-generation Christian writings known as the Apostolic Fathers. The work was considered by some Church Fathers to be a part of the New Testament, while being...

known, but this is a later work by a different author. Part of the Apostolic Fathers collection, 1 and 2 Clement are not part of the canonical New Testament...

presides in the second division, over the penitents") The early church fathers, many of whom were taught directly by the Apostles, spoke of three heavens...

correspondence forms a central part of a later collection of works by the Apostolic Fathers. He is considered one of the three most important of these, together...

Ch. 21. Arendzen 1911. Milburn 1991, p. 68. Ehrman, Bart D. The Apostolic Fathers. Vol. 1. Loeb Classical Library, 2003, 119. Ehrman further notes (fn...

Holy Fathers express it, is shown the Cause of the existence of the Son and the Spirit. All of the Eastern Fathers acknowledge that the Father is monos...

Apostolic Fathers were prominent writers who are traditionally understood to have met and learned from Jesus's personal disciples. The Church Fathers...

Clement of Alexandria.[citation needed] Other known writings of the Apostolic Fathers not listed in this table are as follows: the seven Epistles of Ignatius...

The Ante-Nicene Fathers, subtitled "The Writings of the Fathers Down to A.D. 325" and abbreviated as ANF, is a collection of books in 10 volumes (one...

p16 "ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus - Christian Classics Ethereal Library". www.ccel.org. "ANF02. Fathers of the Second Century:...

epistles, both those in the New Testament and among the early Christian Fathers, were written in accordance with the formalized, Hellenistic tradition...

Press. ISBN 978-0-8308-7819-2. Schoedel, William R. (2020-06-03). The Apostolic Fathers, A New Translation and Commentary, Volume V: Polycarp, Martyrdom of...

complete, but always partial and contested." Apostolic Fathers Catholicism Chalcedonian Christianity Church Fathers Criticism of Christianity Diversity in early...

Apostolic Fathers Robert M. Grant (ed.). The Apostolic Fathers: A New Translation and Commentary Clayton Jefford (ed.). Reading the Apostolic Fathers:...

Ante-Nicene Fathers, edited by Roberts and Donaldson (Buffalo, New York, 1886). Other English translations are by Kirsopp Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (Harvard...