单词 | father of the church |
释义 | > as lemmasFather of the Church b. One of the early Christian writers, on whose works much later doctrine and theology is based. Also more fully Father of the Church. [After post-classical Latin pater ecclesiae (from 8th century in British and continental sources).] Usually applied to those writers of the first five centuries of Christianity.Apostolic Fathers, church father, Greek fathers, etc.: see the first element. ΚΠ OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 16 Ealle þa geleaffullan fæderas þe godes lare awriton. a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 149 Hit seið in Vitas patrum ðat at sume sal waren ðe hali faderes to-gedere igadered. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 155 (MED) Ase zayþ þe boc of collacions of holy uaderes. c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 1 (MED) The rewle of the moost holy fader Austyn. a1475 Bk. Quinte Essence (1889) 18 (MED) It is preued in vitas patrum, þat is to seye, in lyues and colaciouns of fadris. 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Pref. sig. ❧.i If a manne woulde searche out by the auncient fathers. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. ii. 146 As a certaine Father saith. View more context for this quotation a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 200 To this discourse of Basil, other Fathers agree. 1692 J. Ray Misc. Disc. xi. 193 I have already given many Testimonies of the ancient Fathers and Doctors of the Church. 1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes 141 Irenaeus and Origen, and other Fathers. 1776 J. Chelsum Remarks Last Chapters Gibbon's Hist. 20 The Greek as well as the Latin Fathers. 1839 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion II. iv. vii. 191 I gazed with secret rapture on the vast folios of the Christian Fathers. 1887 J. R. Lowell Democracy in Prose Wks. (1890) VI. 14 A Father of the Church said that property was theft many centuries before Proudhon was born. 1911 Catholic Encycl. XI. 313/1 It is not true that the doctrine of original sin does not appear in the works of the pre-Augustinian Fathers. 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. 2000 N. Russell Cyril of Alexandria (front matter) The Greek and Latin fathers of the Church are central to the creation of Christian doctrine. 2001 Church Times 15 June 16/1 A Patristic scholar with a particular interest in St Gregory of Nyssa and the Cappadocian Fathers. < as lemmas |
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