This conception was taken up by the early Church Fathers and by canon lawyers and theologians in the Middle Ages ; ;

What that spirit and attitude were we can best understand if we see more precisely how it contrasts with the communist tradition with the longest continuous history, the one which reached Christianity by the way of Stoicism through the Church Fathers of Late Antiquity.

Then he would take refuge in the reading of the Bible and the Fathers of the Church.

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# De Misericordia et Justitia ( On Mercy and Justice ), a collection of biblical extracts and sayings of Church Fathers with commentary ( an important work for the history of church law and discipline ), which is to be found in the Anecdota of Martène, vol.

Basil's treatise on virginity ; thirty nine discourses of St. Ephrem the Syrian, and many other works of the Fathers and writers of the Greek Church.

The Early Church Fathers wrote that Luke was a physician in Antioch and an adherent of the Apostle Paul.

Methodism also buttresses this argument with the leg of Sacred Tradition of the Wesleyan Quadrilateral by citing the Church Fathers, many of whom concur with this view.

* Church Fathers on the Anointing of the Sick

Those who oppose instruments today believe that emerging opposition of these Church Fathers demonstrates a better understanding of God's desire, but there are significant differences between the teachings of the Church Fathers and Christian opposition to instruments today.

The Church Fathers made no exceptions.

The Reception of the Church of Fathers in the West: From the Carolingians to the Maurists.

Because Athanasius ' canon is the closest canon of any of the Church Fathers to the canon used by Protestant churches today, many Protestants point to Athanasius as the father of the canon.

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Vases filled with water used to start fires were known in the ancient world, and metaphorical significance was drawn ( by the early Church Fathers, for instance ) from the fact that the water remained cool even though the light passing through it would set materials on fire.

Bede was moreover a skilled linguist and translator, and his work with the Latin and Greek writings of the early Church Fathers contributed significantly to English Christianity, making the writings much more accessible to his fellow Anglo-Saxons.

He also studied both the Latin and the Greek Fathers of the Church.

Bede was the first to refer to Jerome, Augustine, Pope Gregory and Ambrose as the four Latin Fathers of the Church.

It is clear from Bede's own comments that he felt his job was to explain to his students and readers the theology and thoughts of the Church Fathers.

*" Writings of the Early Church Fathers on Baptism "

The " angel " reading found an echo among the ancient Fathers of the Church and ecclesiastical writers, and even gave rise to the " strangest fancies ", especially among the disciples of Origen of Alexandria.

The lessons, as has been seen, are drawn variously from the Bible, the Acts of the Saints and the Fathers of the Church.

The Early Church Fathers including Tertullian, Jerome, and Augustine state the Greek word is ambiguous and the women in 1 Corinthians 9: 5 were women ministering to the Apostles as women ministered to Christ ( cf Matthew 27: 55, Luke 8: 1-3 ), and were not wives, and assert they left their " offices of marriage " to follow Christ and to preach.

The Church Fathers, witnessed by the Muratorian Canon, Irenaeus ( c. 170 ), Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and Tertullian, held that the Gospel of Luke was written by Luke.

She argues that the legacy of Christian misogyny was consolidated by the so-called " Fathers " of the Church, like Tertullian, who thought a woman was not only " the gateway of the devil " but also " a temple built over a sewer.

Traducianism was initially developed by Tertullian and arguably propagated by Augustine of Hippo, and has been endorsed by Gregory of Nyssa, Anastasius Sinaita, Hilary of Poitiers, Ambrose of Milan, many in the early Catholic Church ), various Lutheran churches, and some modern theologians such as Augustus H. Strong ( Baptist ), W. G. T. Shedd and Gordon Clark ( Presbyterian ), Lewis Sperry Chafer, Millard Erickson, Norman L. Geisler, Robert Culver, and Robert L. Reymond.

In discussing whether sins committed subsequent to baptism may be forgiven, Tertullian calls baptism and penance " two planks " on which the sinner may be saved from shipwreck — language which he gave to the Church ( De penitentia, xii ).

# With reference to the ' rule of faith ', it may be said that Tertullian is constantly using this expression, and by it means now the authoritative tradition handed down in the Church, now the Scriptures themselves, and, perhaps, a definite doctrinal formula.

Tertullian was a determined advocate of strict discipline and an austere code of practise, and like many of the African fathers, one of the leading representatives of the rigorist element in the early Church.

* The Tertullian Project, a site which provides all of the works of this Father of Church in Latin, translations in many languages, manuscripts etc.

Tertullian, a 2nd century Church Father, described Jesus himself and Paul of Tarsus as spadones, which is translated as " eunuchs " in some contexts.

The early Christian Church was very favorably disposed towards Seneca and his writings, and the church leader Tertullian called him " our Seneca ".

When Tertullian, a Montanist, furiously applied the term to some bishop with whom he was at odds ( either Pope Callixtus I or Agrippinus of Carthage ), c. 220, over a relaxation of the Church's penitential discipline allowing repentant adulterers and fornicators back into the Church, it was in bitter irony:

* Tertullian: Early Church Fathers – Additional Texts ( John Selby Watson's translation of 1853 ; also a translation of the Prologi of Trogus, by the webmaster Roger Pearse.

* Tertullian: Tertullian was a philosopher before he converted to Christianity ; after that change of direction he remained a prolific writer in the second century A. D., and is commonly called the " Father of the Western Church.

By the second and third centuries, such Church Fathers as Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and Tertullian wrote of the practice of Morning and Evening Prayer, and of the prayers at terce, sext, and none.

The fact that chariot racing became linked to the imperial majesty meant that the Church did not prevent it, although gradually prominent Christian writers, such as Tertullian, began attacking the sport.

Bernard theorizes that the majority of all believers were Oneness adherents until the time of Tertullian, who died circa 225, and was the first notable Church figure to use the term Trinity to describe God.

According to Tertullian and other writers of the mainstream Church ( which scholars refer to as Proto-orthodox Christianity ), the movement known as Marcionism began with the teachings and excommunication of Marcion around 144.

The statement " Credo quia absurdum " (" I believe because it is absurd "), often attributed to Tertullian, is sometimes cited as an example of such a view in the Church Fathers, but this appears to be a misquotation from Tertullian's De Carne Christi ( On the Flesh of Christ

The Church historian Eusebius of Caesarea ( writing c. 325 ), shows no acquaintance with this work, although he was aware of " Letters of Pilate " referred to by Justin and Tertullian.

The region produced figures such as Christian Church writer Tertullian ( c. 155 – c. 202 ); and Christian Church martyrs or leading figures such as Perpetua and Felicity ( martyrs, c. 200 CE ); St Cyprian of Carthage (+ 258 ); St. Monica ; her son the philosopher St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo I (+ 430 ) ( 1 ); and St Julia of Carthage ( 5th century.

The Church Father Tertullian mocks the goddess Robigo as " made up ," a fiction.

The Shepherd of Hermas ( 2nd century ) was popular in the early church and even considered scriptural by some of the early Church fathers, such as Irenaeus and Tertullian.