His colorful life and legacy of scientific and political achievement, and status as one of America's most influential Founding Fathers, have seen Franklin honored on coinage and money ; warships ; the names of many towns, counties, educational institutions, namesakes, and companies ; and more than two centuries after his death, countless cultural references.

His writings and his theology have remained central to tradition of the Fathers and to all Orthodox to this day.

Countless pilgrims have visited the " Desert Fathers " to emulate their spiritual, disciplined lives.

Both the Patriarchate of Addis Ababa and all Ethiopia, and the Patriarchate of Asmara and all Eritrea do acknowledge the supremacy of honor and dignity of the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria on the basis that both Patriarchates were established by the Throne of Alexandria and that they have their roots in the Apostolic Church of Alexandria, and acknowledge that Saint Mark the Apostle is the founder of their Churches through the heritage and Apostolic evangelization of the Fathers of Alexandria.

Other notable Founding Fathers may have been more directly deist.

For his part, Thomas Jefferson is perhaps one of the Founding Fathers with the most outspoken of Deist tendencies, though he is not known to have called himself a deist, generally referring to himself as a Unitarian.

The 19th Canon of 1571 asserted the authority of the Councils in this manner: " let preachers take care that they never teach anything ... except what is agreeable to the doctrine of the Old and New Testament, and what the Catholic Fathers and ancient Bishops have collected from the same doctrine.

His reference to Scripture and orthodox Fathers as authorities is what might have been expected.

The " Limbo of the Patriarchs " or " Limbo of the Fathers " ( Latin limbus patrum ) is seen as the temporary state of those who, in spite of the personal sins they may have committed, died in the friendship of God, but could not enter Heaven until redemption by Jesus Christ made it possible.

The doctrine expressed by the term " Limbo of the Fathers " was taught, for instance, by Clement of Alexandria, who maintained: " It is not right that these should be condemned without trial, and that those alone who lived after the coming ( of Christ ) should have the advantage of the divine righteousness.

Scholars have argued that Machiavelli was a major indirect and direct influence upon the political thinking of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

“ Fathers and mothers have ‘ disordered and disobedient children ,’” said the Puritan Richard Greenham, “ because they have been disobedient children to the Lord and disordered to their parents when they were young .” Because the duty of early childcare fell almost exclusively on women, a woman's salvation necessarily depended upon the observable goodness of her child.

Some devout Christian Americans have been disinclined to believe that there may have been non-religious ( or even non-Christian ) presidents, especially amongst the Founding Fathers of the United States.

It has been suggested that some of the early Church Fathers, especially Origen still entertained a belief in the possibility of reincarnation, but evidence is tenuous, and the writings of Origen as they have come down to us speak explicitly against it.

* "' Other elements which have suffered injury through accidents of history are now to be restored to the earlier norm of the Holy Fathers ' ( Sacrosanctum Concilium, art.

He is not present typically, nor figuratively, nor by superabundant grace, as in the other Mysteries, nor by a bare presence, as some of the Fathers have said concerning Baptism, or by impanation, so that the Divinity of the Word is united to the set forth bread of the Eucharist hypostatically, as the followers of Luther most ignorantly and wretchedly suppose.

English translations by Sidney Thelwall and Philip Holmes can be found in volumes III and IV of the Ante-Nicene Fathers which are freely available online ; more modern translations of some of the works have been made.

A republican form of government is distinguished from a pure democracy, which the Founding Fathers wanted to avoid ; as James Madison wrote in Federalist No. 10, " Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention ; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property ; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.

* The voyage and struggles of the Pilgrims have also been the subject of some pieces of literature including Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford, who himself was an important figure of the 1620s, and Felicia Hemans ' classic poem, " The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers.

The Church Fathers have referred to fasting without prayer as " the fast of the demons " since the demons do not eat according to their incorporeal nature, but neither do they pray.

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.

251 – 356 ), also known as Saint Anthony, Anthony of Egypt, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, Anthony of Thebes, Abba Antonius ( Ἀββᾶς Ἀντώνιος ), and Father of All Monks, was a Christian saint from Egypt, a prominent leader among the Desert Fathers.

Many stories are also told about him in various collections of sayings of the Desert Fathers.

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

: We, then, following the holy Fathers, all with one consent, teach people to confess one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, the same perfect in Godhead and also perfect in manhood ;

At the same time, he mentioned that certain other books, including five deuterocanonical books but also the Didache and the Shepherd of Hermas, while not being part of the canon, " were appointed by the Fathers to be read ".

The Cappadocian Fathers also took up the torch ; their Trinitarian discourse was influential in the council at Constantinople.

The Fathers also recount the lists of gifts of the Spirit recorded in the New Testament.

A Catholic mission was conducted in the Ottoman days by Assumpionist Fathers ; there are also a number of Armenian and Greek Catholics, with priests of their respective rites.

He is also commemorated on the Sunday of the Holy Fathers ( the Sunday before the Nativity of the Lord ).

The terms also appear in the same period in Evagrius Pontikos ( c. 345 – 399 ), who although he is writing in Egypt is out of the circle of the Cappadocians, and in the Sayings of the Desert Fathers.

To this period also belong most of his polemics, which distinguished him among the orthodox Fathers, including the treatises against the Origenism later declared anathema, of Bishop John II of Jerusalem and his early friend Rufinus.

This harmonized text also appears in a large number of quotations by the Church Fathers.

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.

There are also a number of extant prose works, such as sermons and saints ' lives, biblical translations, and translated Latin works of the early Church Fathers, legal documents, such as laws and wills, and practical works on grammar, medicine, and geography.

Fathers make visits to their offspring until they are weaned at 10 weeks of age ; also, once the young are about 6 months old, some reconnect with their fathers and travel together for a time.

The Catholic Church recognizes that the addition of " and the Son " to the Greek form of the Creed would be wrong, because of the specific meaning of the Greek verb that is translated as " proceeds ", but it holds that both forms of the text, with and without " Filioque ", are orthodox in other languages, where " proceeds " can also represent a different Greek verb, used by Greek Fathers when saying that the Holy Spirit " proceeds " ( in that sense ) from the Son.

See also the Ante-Nicene Fathers.

He laid stress upon the authority of the Fathers, not only of Augustine, but also of the Greeks.

They also drew heavily from the Fathers of the Church, which Christians of all denominations respect.

Harriet Vaughan Cheney used it in her 1824 novel A Peep at the Pilgrims in Sixteen Thirty-Six, and the term also gained popularity with the 1825 publication of Felicia Hemans ' classic poem, " The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers.

Biafra also received aid from non-state actors, including Joint Church Aid, Holy Ghost Fathers of Ireland, Caritas International, MarkPress and U. S. Catholic Relief Services.

Dating from 1675, this document envisaged hundreds of works, including the Bible in Greek, editions of the Coptic Gospels and works of the Church Fathers, texts in Arabic and Syriac, comprehensive editions of classical philosophy, poetry, and mathematics, a wide range of medieval scholarship, and also " a history of insects, more perfect than any yet Extant.

He was also the grandson of Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America and Deborah Read.