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church father

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church father or Church Father
n.
Any of the authoritative early writers in the Christian church who formulated doctrines and codified religious observances.
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Noun1.Church Father - (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom
Christian religion, Christianity - a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior
theologian, theologiser, theologist, theologizer - someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology


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Catholics and Orthodox read, and believe, the same Scriptures; we also rely on the writings of the same early church fathers.
In the year 200 of the Common Era, Origen, an early church father, charged that Jews had committed the most heinous crime of all: the murder of Christ, for which they suffered the destruction of their nation.
Up to now, scholarship on Jerome's place in the Renaissance has focused on the Church Father as icon and exemplar, and rightly so.
 
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