Group of ancient and influential Christian theologians and writers.
1Are you not aware that the holy fathers of the church have condemned this belief?
2All the ancient fathers of the church considered it as the corner stone of the Christian fabric.
3Some of the fathers of the church, and many estimable divines of different countries, had adopted it.
4Good work, particularly, though not exclusively, in editing the fathers of the church, was done by Erasmus.
5And the fathers of the church, St. Gregory, St. Ambrose, and St. Augustine denounce vehemently astronomy, and geometry.
6The fathers of the church followed more particularly the philosophy of Plato, which was united and adapted to Christianity.
7The robbing of the church is an error condemned by ecclesiastic councils, and execrated by the fathers of the church.
8We have the life of Paul, the hermit, of the third century, by one of the early fathers of the church.
9This prelate was a wretched divine, more familiar with the light of profane authors than with that of the fathers of the church.
10But the fathers of the church, Clemens Romanus and Anastasius Sinaita, have presented us with a detail of the wonders he actually performed.
11Many fathers of the church have given a human form to the Divinity, and treated all those as heretics who made him spiritual.
12And the wrathful chastity of the cook continued hurling against womankind insults and curses equal to those of the first fathers of the church.
13The death took place on May 6th last in a Belgian clinic of one of the great fathers of the church in our time.
14The Fathers of the Church afford her great pleasure; St. Augustine, St.
15They saw what they wanted clearly, those old Fathers of the Church.
16The great fathers of the Church committed themselves unreservedly to it.
Translations for fathers of the church