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patristics
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pa·tris·tics  (p-trstks)
n. (used with a sing. verb)
1. The study of the lives, writings, and doctrines of the Church fathers.
2. The writings of the Church fathers.
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Noun1.patristics - the writings of the early Church Fathers
patrology
writing - (usually plural) the collected work of an author; "the idea occurs with increasing frequency in Hemingway's writings"
2.patristics - the study of the lives, writings, and doctrines of the Church Fathers
patrology
Christian theology - the teachings of Christian churches
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The essays are arranged by period, and consider such topics as the Lords Prayer in patristic literature, prayer among the Benedictines, the prayers and meditations of St.
A history of prayer; the first to the fifteenth century by Reference & Research Book News
The authors document heavily from Hellenistic-Roman texts, the New Testament and patristic literature, archaeological realia, and modern scholarship.
A Woman's Place: House Churches in Earliest Christianity by Krentz, Edgar / Currents in Theology and Mission
Johannes Quasten dubbed the Nicaea-Chalcedon period (325-431) "the Golden Age of Greek Patristic Literature.
Eastern Fathers of the Church by Baldwin, Barry / Catholic Insight
 
 
 
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