单词 | church father |
释义 | > as lemmaschurch father church father n. (also with capital initials) one of the early Christian writers, on whose works much later doctrine and theology is based (see father n. 8b). ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > patristics > Fathers of the Church > [noun] doctorc1390 church father1654 Greek fathers1711 1654 J. Hall Of Govt. & Obed. iii. xii. 354 The..promises also, heretofore made to Abraham, and other the Church Fathers and Founders. a1787 J. Brown Posthumous Wks. (1797) 96 The scriptures..have authority from God, and contain his mind and meaning; and not as authorised, explained, or understood by the church-fathers, councils, or mens own conscience. 1866 J. M. Ludlow Woman's Work in Church 236 The praises of virginity and of widowhood which occur in the works of perhaps every church father—in Cyprian and in Ambrose, in Augustin, in Jerome, in Chrysostom. 1927 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 42 907 Scholarly divines who attempt, by studying the writings of the Church Fathers and other records of ecclesiastical antiquity, to make out a case for the prelatical form of Church-discipline. 2008 C. M. Moreman Beyond Threshold iii. 62 The preeminent among church fathers was St. Augustine of Hippo (354–430). < as lemmas |
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