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 Church also has a number of statements regarding diagnosed conditions accompanied by legal affidavits of authenticity signed by medical practitioners who witnessed a non-medical healing.

He had earlier witnessed the persecution of Baptist preachers in Virginia, who were arrested for preaching without a license from the established Anglican Church.

In Rochester, she attended the local Unitarian Church and began to distance herself from the Quakers, in part because she had frequently witnessed instances of hypocritical behavior such as the use of alcohol amongst Quaker preachers.

Following the recommendations of the Church Committee, President Gerald Ford in 1976 issued the first Executive Order on Intelligence Activities which, among other things, prohibited " experimentation with drugs on human subjects, except with the informed consent, in writing and witnessed by a disinterested party, of each such human subject " and in accordance with the guidelines issued by the National Commission.

At the outbreak of the French Revolution, Pius VI witnessed the suppression of the old Gallican Church, the confiscation of pontifical and ecclesiastical possessions in France, and an effigy of himself burnt by the Parisians at the Palais Royal.

Some skirmishes occurred in the area, as witnessed by the carefully preserved bullet holes in New Bethel Church and the “ Garner ” house, which is said to have been used as a hospital for wounded soldiers.

At the height of the Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal, Greeley wrote The Priestly Sins ( 2004 ), a novel about a young priest from the Plains States who is exiled to an insane asylum and then to an academic life because he reports abuse that he has witnessed.

Around this time, Jones witnessed a faith-healing service at the Seventh Day Baptist Church.

He became unwilling to teach the doctrines of the Church of England, as his tutorship required of him, and in 1848 he resigned as tutor and traveled to Paris, where he witnessed the revolution of 1848.

During the Crusade period, Tripoli witnessed the growth of the inland settlement surrounding the " Pilgrim's Mountain " ( the citadel ) into a built-up suburb including the main religious monuments of the city such as: The " Church of the Holy Sepulchre of Pilgrim's Mountain " ( incorporating the Shiite shrine ), the Church of Saint Mary's of the Tower, and the Carmelite Church.

In 2010, Daly's successor as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, Cardinal Seán Brady, faced " huge pressure to resign " after he admitted that in 1975 he witnessed two teenage boys sign oaths of silence after testifying in a Church inquiry against Smyth.

The year 1981 witnessed a number of evangelical congregations leave in order to form the Evangelical Presbyterian Church.

While Petar's reign witnessed the spread of the Bogomil heresy, its origins were more demographic ( perhaps inspired by Paulicians settled earlier by Byzantine emperors in Thrace ) than social, and the Bulgarian Orthodox Church canonized the monarch as a saint.

Wilfrid had visited Rome in 654 and 679 and witnessed the progressive transformation of the Church administration to a Greek-dominated hierarchy.

Perhaps the strangest was that witnessed at 6. 12am that morning by Mrs Marjorie Bye, who was walking to the Holy Communion service at Christ Church in Warminster.

He argued that the aarly fathers, the great doctors, and the councils of the Church witnessed to the truth of Catholic Eucharistic teaching.

:" The Unification Church, its leaders and followers were and continue to be the victims of the worst kind of religious prejudice and racial bigotry this country has witnessed in over a century.

In 799, Kenelm witnessed a deed of gift of land to Christ Church, Canterbury, and from 803 onwards his name appears on a variety of charters.

The church's pulpit, a construction rarely witnessed in Eastern Orthodox Church | Eastern Orthodox church architecture.

On the evening of 21 August 1879, people whose ages ranged from five years to seventy-five and included men, women, teenagers and children witnessed what they claimed was an apparition of Our Lady, Saint Joseph, and Saint John the Evangelist at the south gable end of the local small parish church, the Church of Saint John the Baptist.

In the ceremony witnessed at the Evergreen Taoist Church of Australia, Deagon, the birth of Quan Yin, the goddess of mercy was celebrated.

In 1966, the People's Republic of Poland witnessed large festivities on the 1000-year anniversary of those events, with the Church celebrating the 1000 years of Christianity in Poland, while the communist government celebrated the secular 1000 years of the Polish State.