Patristic in a sentence

Alcuin's contemporary Theodulf of Orleans produced a second independent reformed recension of the Vulgate, also based largely on Italian exemplars, but with variant readings, from Spanish texts and patristic citations, indicated in the margin.

Although there is no set order of the four gospels in patristic lists or discussions, D. Moody Smith suggests that the standard order of Matthew-Mark-Luke-John "projects a kind of intention that can scarcely be ignored".

Bulgakov concludes: "The patristic teaching of the fourth century lacks that exclusivity which came to characterize Orthodox theology after Photius under the influence of repulsion from the Filioque doctrine.

But with local councils and patristic writings, the Church applies a selective judgement.

Each Church has a bishop and a Holy Synod to administer its jurisdiction and to lead the Church in the preservation and teaching of the apostolic and patristic traditions and church practices.

It is disputed whether, in this context, deuterosis means "Mishnah" or " Targum ": in patristic literature, the word is used in both senses.

Langland, Piers Plowman A ix 136 The sense the word has in English depends in large part on the sense the Latin and Greek equivalents had acquired in Patristic and medieval Christian usage, though the English term has now spread beyond Christian contexts.

Moreover, the Abbasids were interested only in Greek science, philosophy and medicine; they did not have Greek history, rhetoric, or other literary works translated; nor did they have Christian patristic writers translated.

Scripture cannot stand on its since it must be interpreted in the light of the Church's patristic teaching and ecumenical creeds.

See Louth, Dionysius the Areopagite, (1987), p55; (2) Dionysius' account of the sacrament of oil in the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy is not found in most other patristic sources, except for those in the Syrian tradition.

The Catholic understanding of these words, from the Patristic authors onward, has emphasized their roots in the covenantal history of the Old Testament.

The homilies cover a variety of subjects, and the author is one of the earliest patristic witnesses to the doctrine regarding the descent of Christ into Hell.

The lessons read at the third nocturn are patristic homilies on the Gospels, and together form a rough summary of theological instruction.

The patristic tradition and the Church's Councils function on this provable experience.

The propriety of this legislation was bitterly contested by the Oxford Movement (Tractarians), citation who in response developed a vision of Anglicanism as religious tradition deriving ultimately from the Ecumenical Councils of the patristic church.

The text appears in a large number of Patristic quotations and twice in the Clementine Homilies (Hom. 3:55, 19:2).

The work is interspersed with lengthy florilegia (anthologies of patristic citations), which may be the reason for its preservation.

The works of Euhemerus himself have not survived, but Christian patristic writers took up the suggestion.

This is one of the longest patristic works.

This position is supported by patristic scholar Timothy Barnes in his book Constantine and Eusebius.