单词 | early church father |
释义 | > as lemmasearly Church Father early Church n. (chiefly with the) the Christian Church in its earliest era; cf. Primitive Church at primitive adj. 2a; also attributive, esp. in early Church Father (usually in plural) = church father n. at church n.1 and adj. Compounds 2.In earliest use not a fixed collocation. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > person > [noun] > in earliest times > collective Primitive Churcha1475 early Church1675 1675 F. Gregory ΑΓΑΠΗ, or Feast of Love 2 We find them [sc. feasts of charity] mentioned by St. Paul, who reproves their abuse in that Early Church of Corinth. 1694 J. Strype Memorials T. Cranmer ii. vi. 164 They took..along with them, concerning this Matter [sc. the defence of the Mass], the Ancient Canons of the Early Church. 1778 W. Burgh Inq. Belief Christians Introd., p. iv Such observations as were made upon the religious tenets of the early Church, by those Heathen or Jewish authors. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. vii. 160 The martyrs of the early church..exposed by heathen tyrants to be slain by wild beasts. 1875 W. Barrows Church & her Children xxvi. 208 Many of the early Church fathers were not baptized in their infancy. 1912 E. B. Sanford Conc. Cycl. Relig. Knowl. 116/2 In the early Church, when catechumens were martyred before receiving baptism. 1984 Canad. Lit. Spring 196 Although I would take issue with the early Church Fathers on many things, I would agree that despair is..one of the deadly sins. 2010 M. S. Massa Amer. Catholic Revol. i. 6 An equally conservative call to return..to the original wellsprings of the faith as found in the early Church. < as lemmas |
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