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Meanings of fathers of the church in English
Russian
отцы церкви Portuguese
pais da igreja Spanish
padres de la iglesia catolica Catalan
pares de l'església catòlica 
Group of ancient and influential Christian theologians and writers.
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Examples for "church fathers"
Examples for "church fathers"
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He felt that the visit of his church fathers was unreal.
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From these schools came great church fathers who defended the church from the heretics of the age.
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He is then asked, if he is a disciple, not of Christ, but of certain church fathers.
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The early church fathers had the power of healing, in short, it was a part of their work.
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As they supposed, these articles had been determined by the church fathers-Augustine ,Jerome ,andothers-andby the Bible.
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In fact, he was one of the early fathers of the Alice project.
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The early fathers-Spanish-erectedMissions from one end of the State to the other.
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This is shown to us by the apologists and early fathers of the Church.
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Of this belief we find survivals among the early fathers, and especially in St. Ambrose.
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Of Marcion's abortive attempt we have abundant notices in the writings of the early fathers.
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The early Christian fathers were perfectly familiar with the theories of Lucretius.
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There has never been a stronger type of men than the Christian Fathers.
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The Christian Fathers contented themselves with reviling and ridiculing the use of these emblems.
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But the Christian Fathers always wore a long black gown.
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They were, as the Christian Fathers were fond of saying, a preparation for Christianity.
Usage of fathers of the church in English
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Are you not aware that the holy fathers of the church have condemned this belief?
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All the ancient fathers of the church considered it as the corner stone of the Christian fabric.
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Some of the fathers of the church, and many estimable divines of different countries, had adopted it.
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Good work, particularly, though not exclusively, in editing the fathers of the church, was done by Erasmus.
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And the fathers of the church, St. Gregory, St. Ambrose, and St. Augustine denounce vehemently astronomy, and geometry.
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The fathers of the church followed more particularly the philosophy of Plato, which was united and adapted to Christianity.
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The robbing of the church is an error condemned by ecclesiastic councils, and execrated by the fathers of the church.
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We have the life of Paul, the hermit, of the third century, by one of the early fathers of the church.
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This prelate was a wretched divine, more familiar with the light of profane authors than with that of the fathers of the church.
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But the fathers of the church, Clemens Romanus and Anastasius Sinaita, have presented us with a detail of the wonders he actually performed.
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Many fathers of the church have given a human form to the Divinity, and treated all those as heretics who made him spiritual.
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And the wrathful chastity of the cook continued hurling against womankind insults and curses equal to those of the first fathers of the church.
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The death took place on May 6th last in a Belgian clinic of one of the great fathers of the church in our time.
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The Fathers of the Church afford her great pleasure; St. Augustine, St.
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They saw what they wanted clearly, those old Fathers of the Church.
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The great fathers of the Church committed themselves unreservedly to it.
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