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| | Post-Apostolic Fathers of the Church |
 | | The writings of the Fathers or Patristic Literature synthesized Christian doctrine as found in the Bible, especially the gospels, the writings of the Apostolic Fathers, ecclesiastical dictums, and decisions of the Church councils. | | | The term "Post-Apostolic Fathers" is the name given by the Christian Church to the writers who established Christian doctrine before the 8th century. | | | Formulated the "homousian doctrine" that the Son of God is the same essence of substance of the Father |
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| | The Rule of Faith in Patristic Thought |
| | This is the faith of the Church Fathers and the Catholic Church. | | | The final persistent theme in the faith of the early Church Fathers is that Christ entrusted the entire deposit of faith to the Church and the responsibility for interpreting it in an orthodox and authoritative manner. | | | It is clear that the Fathers affirmed that all of the doctrines of the Catholic faith are to be found within the Bible. |
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| | APOSTOLIC FATHERS - LoveToKnow Article on APOSTOLIC FATHERS |
| | While the title Fathers s given from at least the begin.ning of the 4th century to inch writers of former days, as being the parents of Christian ief and thought for later times, the expression. | | | They have not caught the Apostolic d eaning, because they have not penetrated to the full religious aI :perience which gave to the words, often words with long and in iried history both in the Septuagint and in ordinary Greek P~ age, their specific meaning to each apostle and especially to tF lul. | | | Marcions reaction, too, ainst the Judaic temper in the Church as a whole, in the Lerests of an extravagant Paulinism, while it suggests that Luls doctrines of grace generally were inadequately realized in e sub-apostolic age, points also to the prevalence of such Dralism in particular. |
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| | Apostolic Fathers, Fathers of the Church |
| | Fathers of the Church, name given by the Christian church to the writers who established Christian doctrine before the 8th century. | | | The writings of the Fathers, or patristic literature, synthesized Christian doctrine as found in the Bible, especially the Gospels, the writings of the Apostolic Fathers, ecclesiastical dictums, and decisions of church councils (see Council). | | | The Apostolic Fathers were authors of nonbiblical church writings of the 1st and early 2nd centuries. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Apostolic Fathers |
| | Meagre as they necessarily are in their testimony, the Apostolic Fathers bear witness to the faith of Christians in the chief mysteries of the Divine Unity and Trinity. | | | The writings of the Apostolic Fathers are generally epistolary in form, after the fashion of the canonical Epistles, and were written, for the greater part, not for the purpose of instructing Christians at large, but for the guidance of individuals or local churches in some passing need. | | | The term Apostolic, however, was commonly used to qualify Churches, persons, writings, etc. from the early second century, when St. Ignatius, in the exordium of his Epistle to the Trallians, saluted their Church "after the Apostolic manner." In 1672 Jean Baptiste Cotelier (Cotelerius) published his "SS. |
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| | Rejection of Pascal's Wager: The Apostolic Fathers |
| | [2] The apostolic fathers are part of the proof to the claim of the Christian church of their apostolic faith. | | | The term Apostolic Fathers seems to have been used as early as the sixth century when it was used by Severus of Antioch(c465-538) to refer to those church fathers who came immediately after the first (apostolic) generation. | | | The succession claims regarding the remaining two apostolic fathers, Polycarp and Clement of Rome, are examined elsewhere. |
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| | Sola Scriptura: Apostolic Fathers used scripture as the primary defense against false doctrine. |
| | The Apostolic Fathers firmly believed in the all-sufficiency of scripture. | | | Apostolic Fathers used scripture as the primary defense against false doctrine. | | | Therefore, it is obvious, that the Fathers maintained the concept of using the Bible as the ultimate and all-sufficient source of doctrine and tradition, while failing to notice the very drifting away from the Bible pattern. |
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| | Apostolic Fathers: took on the responsibility of explaining and clarifying issues of faith. | | | Fathers and Doctors of the Church: a group of writers who were outstanding in learning and sanctity. | | | Apologists: wrote eloquently and passionately in defense of the faith. |
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| | C. H. Forney's The Christian Ordinances [Part I: Baptism, Chapter VI]. |
| | The Apostolic Fathers are the writers of the church who were the immediate successors of the Apostles, while the Fathers of the Church are the leading writers of the church who were born after the close of the first century and down to A. 700, and later. | | | By the Fathers of the Church some mean the writers of the Christian church from the immediate post-Apostolic times down to the seventh century, and later. | | | We make a distinction between the Apostolic Fathers and the Fathers of the Church, fully aware, however, that temporal limits within which the Fathers are to be confined have long been points of grave discussion. |
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| | So it is that the teaching of our holy fathers is strengthened, namely, the tradition of the catholic church which has received the gospel from one end of the earth to the other. | | | It is necessary that the person who is to be advanced to a bishopric should be elected by bishops, as has been decreed by the holy fathers at Nicaea in the canon that says: "It is by all means desirable that a bishop should be appointed by all [the bishops] in the province. | | | So it is that we really follow Paul, who spoke in Christ, and the entire divine apostolic group and the holiness of the fathers, clinging fast to the traditions which we have received. |
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| | The Divine Liturgy |
| | For unto Thee are due all glory, honor, and worship, to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. | | | Blessed is the kingdom of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and to the ages of ages. | | | For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and to the ages of ages. |
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| | Fathers of the Early Church Speak |
| | The Fathers of the Church spread the gospel of Jesus Christ, defended the Church in apologetic writing and fought the many heresies of the first six centuries of Christianity. | | | Like Jesus who referred to Abraham as a spiritual father (Luke 16: 24) and St. Paul, who referred to himself in the same terms (1 Cor 4: 15), the Fathers were zealous for the word of God. | | | These men, also called Apostolic Fathers, gave special witness to the faith, some dying the death of a martyr. |
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| | The Apostolic Fathers |
| | The Encyclical Epistle of the Church at Smyrna Concerning The Martyrdom of the Holy Polycarp, Chap. | | | For they who affirm that the Son is the Father, are proved neither to have become acquainted with the Father, nor to know that the Father of the universe has a Son; who also, being the first-begotten Word of God, is even God. | | | Be ye subject to the bishop, and to one another, as Jesus Christ to the Father, according to the flesh, and the apostles to Christ, and to the Father, and to the Spirit; that so there may be a union both fleshly and spiritual. |
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| | But to me Jesus Christ is in the place of all that is ancient: His cross, and death and resurrection, and the FAITH which is by Him are undefiled monuments of antiquity..' Epis Philadelphians 8,2 'Follow the bishop, all of you, as Jesus Christ follows his Father, and the presbterium as the Apostles. | | | Thus, becuase of the great distortions caused by various erros, it is, indeed, necessary that the trend of the interpretation of the prophetic and apostolic writings be directed in accordance with the rule of the ecclesiastical and Catholic meaning" Comm 2....Compiled by Corunum's Catholic BBS (714) 531-7255....Fido 1:103/550 ; Postlink/PcRelay #1719; 19.2K/V32Bis | | | In just the same way, the other churches show who were made bishops by the Apostles and who transmitted the apostolic seed to them. |
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| | Orthodoxy: The Narrow Path - Apostolic Fathers |
| | Eusebius (264-340), 'Father of Church History'; Bishop of Caesarea...wrote an 'Ecclesiastical History' from Christ to the Council of Nicaea. | | | Their understanding of what the Apostles taught on things such as the Eucharist, Baptism, Church Government, Apostolic Succession, Tradition, and the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church were clear and undeniable. | | | He said that their lives overlapped the Apostolic generation and that some of them were companions of the Apostles themselves. |
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| | Latest News - Republic of Botswana |
| | One of the Apostolic Church fathers Herbert Phaka reported that the Old Apostolic Church originated in Bethlehem in the Middle East. | | | Merafhe said the old Apostolic Church was involved in the disaster relief, home based care and orphanage programmes and even extended its gesture to beyond the country's borders by contributing towards the Mozambican floods relief. | | | He commended the Apostolic Church for the physical developments it made countrywide and its promotion of the spirit of self-reliance. |
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| | A Historical Introduction to the New Testament: Ch 16- Apostolic Fathers |
| | Other writings of the Apostolic Fathers include the seven letters written about 115 by Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, on his way through Asia Minor to martyrdom at Rome, and the letter or letters of his contemporary Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna, to the Philippians. | | | If those scholars are right to conclude that in the writings of the Apostolic Fathers there are practically no reflections of the synoptic gospels, the Apostolic Fathers stand almost as close to the earliest traditions about Jesus as the synoptic evangelists do. | | | The chief significance of all of them lies in their reflection of the life and thought of the Church in the period soon after the apostolic age. |
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| | Evangelical Critics of the Eucharist |
| | First, as even Catholic scholars admit, the Fathers were by no means unanimous in their interpretation, and yet Trent speaks of the 'unanimous consent of the Fathers' as the means of determining true apostolic tradition. | | | I would grant the point that the word "transubstantiation" is not specifically used by the Church Fathers (the word first appears in the 11th century debates on the Eucharist, and was affirmed by the Fourth Lateran Council [1215] and the Council of Trent), but this is not relevant. | | | This does not mean at all, however, that the church did not yet have a doctrine of the Eucharist; it does mean that the statements of its doctrine must not be sought in polemical and dogmatic treatises devoted to sacramental theology. |
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| | The Didache: Teachings of the 12 Apostles |
| | Similarities to the Apostolic Decree are apparent, and the given structure of the church is quite primitive. | | | Now if you don't have either, pour water three times on the head, "into the name of the Father, and of the son, and of the holy Spirit." Now before the ritual cleansing, the baptizer and the one being baptized should fast, and any others who are able. | | | But watch out for the idol-sacrifices, for this is a religious service of dead gods. |
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| | THE DIDACHE |
| | Having first recited all these things, baptize in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit in living (running) water. | | | But if you have neither, then pour water on the head thrice in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. | | | "We give You thanks, Holy Father, for Your holy name, which You have made to tabernacle in our hearts, and for the knowledge and faith and immortality, which You have made known to us through Your Son Jesus; Yours is the glory for ever and ever. |
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| | The Development of the Canon of the New Testament - Apostolic Fathers |
| | The title 'Apostolic Fathers' refers to a circle of authors who are supposed to have had personal knowledge of some of the apostles, but did not actually belong to their number. | | | At most, the Apostolic Fathers disclose for this or that geographic area an amount of knowledge and use of several 1st century documents that later came to be gathered into what we know as the New Testament. | | | Four of these -- I Clement, Epistle of Barnabas, Didache, Shepherd of Hermas -- are part of this survey because they were cited approvingly by an early Christian authority. |
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| | Knowledge of the Apostolic Fathers also contributes to one's understanding of the theological and spiritual heritage of the church. | | | The texts included will be: 1 Clement, 2 Clement, the Letters of Ignatius, the Letter of Polycarp to the Philippians, the Martyrdom of Polycarp, the Didache, Barnabas, the Shepherd of Hermas, the Epistle to Diognetus and the fragments of Papias and Quadratus. | | | Careful reading of the Apostolic Fathers and the required text books. |
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| | THE DIDACHE |
| | Direct comparison of "your son David" and "your son Jesus" must be a very early doctrine, predating the doctrine that Jesus is the only son of God and the doctrine set forth by Athanasius in AD 318 that Jesus was God Incarnate. | | | The Trinity formula "In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" appears only once in the New Testament (Matthew 28:19). | | | 10:1 And after you are filled, give thanks thus: 2 "We thank you, holy Father, for your holy name, which you have caused to dwell in our hearts, and for the knowledge and faith and immortality which you have made known to us through your son Jesus; to you be the glory forever. |
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| | Born Again: Baptism in the Fathers |
| | Every Christian, all the Church Fathers, bishops, and saints who lived after the apostles (and some while the apostles were still alive) interpreted our Lord's words in John chapter 3 that to be "born again" and "born of water and the Spirit" refers to the Sacrament of Baptism. | | | Whence does this derive, except from an ancient and, as I suppose, apostolic tradition, by which the Churches of Christ hold inherently that without Baptism and participation at the table of the Lord it is impossible for any man to attain either to the kingdom of God or to salvation and life eternal? | | | All the major Church Fathers are covered through the fifth century. |
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| | Story of the Church - The Apostolic Fathers |
| | Was one of the church fathers known to have been a premillenialist. | | | century, and might be construed to imply that the so-called "fathers" were men who had actually known the apostles personally, and therefore represented the first generation of post-apostolic leadership in the church. | | | Epistle to the Smyrnaeans, chap 8: "See that ye all follow the bishop, even as Jesus Christ does the Father, and the presbytery as ye would the apostles; and reverence the deacons, as being the institution of God. |
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| | The apostolic fathers were written to Christians, but the Epistle to Diognetus was written to and for outsiders. | | | It is an apology, that is, a defense of the Christian faith, and it belongs among the Christian apologists more than among the apostolic fathers. | | | Philip Schaff calls it that "short but precious document" and says the unknown author "must be ranked with the `great unknown' authors of Job and the Epistle to the Hebrews, who are known only to God" (History of the Christian Church, II, 699-700). |
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| | New Catholic Dictionary: Apostolic Fathers |
| | Christian writers of the 1st and 2nd centuries who are known, or are considered, to have had personal relations with some of the Apostles, or to have been so influenced by them that their writings may be held as echoes of genuine Apostolic teaching. | | | The term virtually embraces all the remains of primitive Christian literature antedating the great apologies of the 2nd century and forming the link of tradition that binds these latter writings to those of the New Testament. | | | They are generally epistolary in form and were written for the greater part for the guidance of individuals or local churches in some passing need. |
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| | Pope Leo the Great on the Papacy |
| | I have interpreted, through the Divine grace, both the Apostolic writings and the prophetic utterances, and it is easy therefrom to gather whether I have kept unswervingly the standard of the Faith, or have turned aside from its straight path. | | | And their See is still blest by the light of their God's presence, seeing that therein He has placed your Holiness to shed abroad the rays of the one true Faith. | | | She has, too, the tombs of our common fathers and teachers of the Truth, Peter and Paul, to illumine the souls of the faithful. |
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| | Textual Integrity & The Bible |
| | It is a frequent claim by the Christian missionaries that the Church Fathers believed that the New Testament was considered as 'inspired' Scripture. | | | The upshot of all this is that the primary authority for Ignatius was the apostolic preaching about the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, though it made little difference to him whether it was oral or written. | | | The authorities in the case of Christian 'hadîth' are the Apostles and later day Church Fathers. |
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| | Didache |
| | Athanasius describes it as 'appointed by the Fathers to be read by those who newly join us, and who wish for instruction in the word of goodness' [Festal Letter 39:7]. | | | Hence a date for the Didache in its present form later than the second century must be considered unlikely, and a date before the end of the first century probable. | | | Barnabas 18-20), but was reorganized in a source common to the Didache, the Doctrina apostolorum, and the Apostolic Church Order and supplemented by a sapiental meditation on minor and major transgressions (3.1-6) (Kloppenborg 1995c). |
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| | JESUS-PEOPLE : the Didache |
| | It was often cited by the so-called "Fathers of the Church". | | | Even a logoic Christology (Jesus the Christ as the Son of God) is not necessary, for Jesus is a mediator who serves the Holy Father and it is to God that all returns, not to Christ. | | | These rubrics became the core of the "great prayer" of the later Mass, and in it the eucharist is directly linked with the death of Christ (paschal theme) and His incarnation in the eucharist (consecration). |
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| | DID ANY CHURCH FATHERS TEACH SOLA FIDE? RESPONSE TO A CHALLENGE |
| | The believing possess the image of their Prince, God the Father, and Jesus Christ, through whom, if we are not in readiness to die for the truth into his passion, his life is not in us. | | | I originally gave all the quotes from the individual books that the Church Fathers have written, but I did not state where these citations and books can be found. | | | The view of the Church Fathers is What God declares, he makes righteous, unlike the Protestant view of declaration only. |
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| | Dialogue on Whether the Fathers Taught "Perspicuity" of Scripture and Denied the Necessity of Tradition and an Authoritative Church (Dave Armstrong vs. | | | The Sufficiency of Scripture and the Church Fathers (Particularly, St. Athanasius and the Trinity) (Dave Armstrong vs. E.L. Hamilton and "Cranmer") |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Didache |
| | The Apostolic church ordinance has used a part, the Apostolic Constitutions have embodied the Didascalia. | | | This (vii-x) begins with an instruction on baptism, which is to be conferred "in the Name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost" in living water, if it can be had — if not, in cold or even hot water. | | | A short treatise which was accounted by some of the Fathers as next to Holy Scripture. |
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| | Is the Shepherd of Hermas Inspired Scripture? |
| | Even though The Shepherd enjoyed widespread acceptance as an inspired writing by many in the early Church there were some who not only viewed the book as being 'less favourable' than Origin but went as far as being in hostile opposition to it. | | | Eusebius, The Church History of Eusebius, Nicene and post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. | | | It should be noted however, that because the Muratorian Fragment originated in Rome it should not be surprising that it excludes The Shepherd. |
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| | Hall of Church History—The Church Fathers |
| | The writings of the Church Fathers are not free from such influences. | | | It is therefore a mistake to view the Church Fathers' writings as if they had some sort of canonical authority. | | | Moreover, the next three centuries were a long chronicle of doctrinal conflict, and these men whom we call Church Fathers did not always agree with one another. |
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| | Evidence That the Gospels Are Authentic |
| | Thus, the works of the Apostolic Fathers are doubly potent for authenticating the Gospels. | | | Each direct citation of a Gospel proves that at the time of the citation, the Gospel was already in wide circulation. | | | Yet even the allusions that may be based on oral tradition do not contradict the Gospel record. |
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| | Early Church Fathers |
| | The writers known as the church fathers represent the ancient orthodox church as opposed to other elements of ancient Christianity such as Gnosticism. | | | The following are early church fathers and apologists of the first and second centuries. | | | These are the church fathers and apologists that can be read on the Early Christian Writings web site. |
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| | In brief, the writings known as the Apostolic Fathers include only the texts thought to have been written by people who knew the Apostles or were one degree separated from them. | | | This article goes on to provide a concise summary of each of the texts that make up the Apostolic Fathers. | | | How are the "Apostolic Fathers" different from the "Early Church Fathers"? |
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| | Handbook of Patrology: First Period, Section I: The Apostolic Fathers |
| | The Epistle of Pseudo-Barnabas, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, the author of the Apostolic Constitutions, and others had quoted it or embodied fragments of it in their works. | | | These writings are, indeed, a continuation of the Gospels and of Apostolic literature. | | | Athanasius had even mentioned it expressly by its title, the "Doctrine of the Apostles." The treatise was very popular in the early Church; some looked upon it even as an inspired book.[2] But the complete original text was discovered only in 1873, by Philotheos Bryennios in the Codex Hierosolymitanus, which dates from 1056. |
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| | Medieval Sourcebook: Full Text Sources |
| | Volume VII -- Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: Lactantius, Dionysius of Rome, Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, Constitutions of the Holy Apostles, The Homily Ascribed to Clement, Early Liturgies. | | | The Early Church Fathers is a 38-volume collection of writings from the first 800 years of the Church. | | | Volume II -- Fathers of the Second Century: Hermas, Tatian, Theophilus, Athenagoras, Clement of Alexandria. |
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| | Early Church Fathers And The Foundations Of Dispensationalism |
| | The apostolic fathers examined here are Clement of Rome, Ignatius, Polycarp, and Papias. | | | [28] While Lightfoot takes issue with most of the tradition surrounding Ignatius’s apostolic discipleship, he nevertheless contends that even if one supposes a late date for his conversion, “there is [no] chronological inconsistency in the supposition that Ignatius was a disciple of some Apostle. | | | [11] Whether or not this Clement was consecrated by Peter or was one of Paul’s “fellow workers,” he was certainly in a position to have known the views of the apostolic church. |
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| | The Writings of Augustine: Augustine [354-430] was Overseer of the church at Hippo, North Africa, and is considered by many to be the father of western theology. | | | The Early Church Fathers collection at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Wheaton College. | | | Aquinas is known for his development of a systematic theology based on reason and faith. |
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| | Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers @ CenturyOne Bookstore |
| | They are a selection from a group known as the Apostolic Fathers, so-called because several of the authors were likely disciples of the Apostles themselves. | | | Like much of the New Testament, their writings take the form of letters, and for the most part deal with practical problems of the life of the early Church, as it struggled in the face of persecution to establish itself in the Roman World. | | | The writings in this volume shed a glimmer of light, in an otherwise dark period, on the emerging traditions and organization of the infant Church. |
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| | For, if those closest to the heart of the church and those most in tune with the ministry of the Spirit, recognized these writings as scripture, then the opinions and usage patterns of those more removed from the center of activity should be weighted less heavily. | | | But we need to examine the questions raised, for Clement is indeed an important figure in the early church, and we should examine his document carefully. | | | Says Donald Hagner, 'The Use of Old and New Testaments in Clement of Rome' (1973): 'While it seems difficult to deny that Clement, writing from Rome in AD95, was acquainted with the Synoptic Gospels, his epistle provides us with little positive indication of this acquaintance.' (p.332). |
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| | The Apostolic Fathers: The earliest Post Apostolic witness of the Church. | | | It should be stated at the outset that the Orthodox Church does not subscribe to that distinction which comes down through the intellectual filters of the medieval west and which distinguishes between the Fathers and Doctors of the Church according to the dates in which they lived and worked. | | | Thus, it includes not only the great writers of the Church as recorded in the 38 Volume set of the Ante Nicene, Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, and the novels of Dostoevsky, but also such dubious wild-eyed scholasticized Augustinians as John Calvin and such various of his camp followers as the proto-phenomenologist Jonathan Edwards. |
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http://www.sspeterpaul.org/Patristics.htm
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| | Early Church Fathers Collection |
| | The 'Early Church Fathers Series in WinHelp Format' is a 37-volume electronic collection of writings from the first 800 years of the Church. | | | ecf07wh.zip: Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: Lactantius; Venantius; Asterius Urbanus; Victorinus; Dionysius of Rome; Teaching of the Twelve Apostles; Constitutions of the Holy Apostles; Homily Ascribed to Clement; Early Liturgies | | | ecf02wh.zip: Fathers of the Second Century: Hermas; Tatian; Theophilus; Athenagoras; Clement of Alexandria |
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http://www.zeitun-eg.org/ecfidx.htm
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