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

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...

two tables. Ante-Nicene Fathers (book) Apostolic Fathers Cappadocian Fathers Church Fathers Desert Fathers Doctors of the Church List of early Christian...

Apophthegmata Patrum (Sayings of the Desert Fathers). The small communities founded by the Desert Fathers were the beginning of Christian monasticism...

whether the earliest Church Fathers in Christian history believed in the doctrine of the Trinity – the Christian doctrine that God the Father, the Son (Jesus...

Pilgrim Fathers knelt down in prayer on the quay near the church. Much later, American visitors gave the church its third name, Pilgrim Fathers' Church. The...

designated Church Fathers. The names derive from the combined forms of Latin pater and Greek πᾰτήρ (father). The period of the Church Fathers, commonly...

Catholic theology, the writings of the Church Fathers are considered to be sacred tradition. While many Church Fathers taught that eternal hellfire awaits...

collection of Early Church Fathers. According to the surviving fragments of the work Exposition of the Sayings of the Lord of the Apostolic Father Papias of Hierapolis...

Ante-Nicene Fathers Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Ancient Christian Writers Ludwig Schopp, ed. (1947). The Apostolic Fathers. The Fathers of the Church 1. Washington...

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

for the sacrament") Wilson, Douglas; Fischer, Ty (2005). Omnibus II: Church Fathers Through the Reformation. Veritas Press. p. 101. ISBN 978-1-932168-44-0...

their dominion. It is a model of the atonement that is dated to the Church Fathers, and it was the dominant theory of atonement for a thousand years, until...

Fathers, Early Church Fathers, or Fathers of the Church are the early and influential theologians and writers in the Christian Church, particularly those...

contain some historical kernel; the writing of the Apostolic Fathers and the Church Fathers, such as Papias of Hierapolis, Pope Clement I, Polycarp, Ignatius...

Tertullian. CHURCH FATHERS: The Prescription Against Heretics XXX (Tertullian). Retrieved 15 January 2021. of Alexandria, Clement. CHURCH FATHERS: The Stromata...

councils, and the teaching of the Church Fathers. The church teaches that it is the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church established by Jesus Christ in...

with a cloth veil was the practice of the early Church, being universally taught by the Church Fathers and practiced by Christian women throughout history...

Spirit. Other Church Fathers, such as Gregory Nazianzen, argued in his Orations that the revelation was gradual, claiming that the Father was proclaimed...

is necessary that it be attested by the liturgy, and the Fathers and Doctors of the Church. Guéranger maintained that these conditions were met and that...

years of Christianity, the Church Fathers commented extensively on numerology. Influenced mainly by Biblical precepts, the Fathers down to the time of Bede...

teaching of the church fathers and the councils." As such, the Lutheran Churches traditionally hold that theirs represents the true visible Church. This mark...

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

Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Protestant churches for the majority of their history. Many early Church Fathers—including Justin Martyr and Augustine of...

separation of the Christian church from Judaism, and they are regularly found in old manuscripts and cited frequently by the Church Fathers, such as Clement of...

their heel." The church father Irenaeus of Lyons in his Against Heresies (5.21.1), followed by several other fathers of the church, interpreted the verse...

Luigi Gambero, "Mary and the fathers of the church: the Blessed Virgin Mary in patristic thought" pp. 35–41 CHURCH FATHERS: The History of Joseph the Carpenter...

represents Israel or the Church. In St. Thomas Aquinas' Catena Aurea, he compiles the comments of some of the Church Fathers on this passage, who point...

Pentecostals, and others.[citation needed] Church Fathers First seven ecumenical councils State church of the Roman Empire World Encyclopaedia of Interfaith...

the fathers", not a council's addition that could be shown to be in line with the intentions of the Fathers and the faith of the ancient Church. Actions...