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Patristic   /pətrˈɪstɪk/   Listen
Patristic

adjective
1.
Of or relating to the writings of the early church fathers.  Synonym: patristical.



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"Patristic" Quotes from Famous Books



... Donne, and still more in Bishops Andrews and Hackett, there is a strong Patristic leaven. In Jeremy Taylor this taste for the Fathers and all the Saints and Schoolmen before the Reformation amounted to a dislike of the divines of the continental Protestant Churches, Lutheran or Calvinistic. But this must, in part at least, be attributed to Taylor's keen feelings ...
— The Literary Remains Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Edited By Henry Nelson Coleridge


Words linked to "Patristic" :   Church Father, patristics, patristical


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