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	Cappadocian Fathers
		Two brothers and a close friend, these three theologians became defenders of Nicene orthodoxy and carried forward the work of Origen, Tertullian, and Athanasius in formulating the doctrine of the Trinity.
		The Cappadocian fathers contributed to the emergence of a doctrine of the Trinity that stood between the extremes of Arianism and monarchianism.
		While Athanasius had emphasized the single substance of the Godhead through the concept homoousios, the Cappadocians accented the idea of hypostasis or "person," which made it possible to speak in a balanced way of the Trinity as a Godhead of one substance and three persons.
	demo.lutherproductions.com /historytutor/basic/early/people/cappadocian.htm (341 words)

	Church Fathers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Church Fathers or Fathers of the Church are the early and influential theologians and writers in the Christian Church, particularly those of the first five centuries of Christian history.
		Famous Apostolic Fathers are St. Clement of Rome, the author of the Didache and the Shepherd of Hermas.
		The Desert Fathers were early monastics living in the Egyptian desert; although they did not write as much, their influence was also great.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Church_father (371 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: St._Basil_the_Great (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Basilian Fathers, also known as The Congregation of St. Basil, is an international order of Roman Catholic priests and students studying for the priesthood.
		In Greek tradition, his name was given to Father Christmas and is supposed to visit children and give presents every January 1 (when Basil's memory is celebrated), unlike other traditions where this person is Saint Nicolas and comes every Christmas.
		Although Basil advocated objectively the consubstantiality of the Holy Spirit with the Father and the Son, he belonged to those, who, faithful to Eastern tradition, would not allow the predicate homoousios to the former; for this he was reproached as early as 371 by the Orthodox zealots among the monks, and Athanasius defended him.
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=St._Basil_the_Great (1310 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Fathers of the Church
		But he is also regarded by the early Fathers, such as Hegesippus, Irenaeus, and Tertullian as the recipient of the tradition of his predecessors in the see, and consequently as the witness and representative of the faith of his Church before Catholicity and the world.
		Hence the expression "the Fathers" comes naturally to be applied to the holy bishops of a preceding age, whether of the last generation or further back, since they are the parents at whose knee the Church of today was taught her belief.
		It follows that, as our own Fathers are the predecessors who have taught us, so the Fathers of the whole Church are especially the earlier teachers, who instructed her in the teaching of the Apostles, during her infancy and first growth.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06001a.htm (17381 words)

	Discussion of Fr. John Romanides Paper
		FATHER ROMANIDES: In both the Cappadocian and Alexandrian traditions the ousia of God is beyond all categories of thought in a radical manner and therefore not only beyond definition of any kind, but also beyond the predication of any name whatsoever, to such an extent that God is hyper-onymos, hyper-ousios and even hyper-theos.
		FATHER SAMUEL: I am glad to hear you say that the Twelve Chapters were accepted by Chalcedon, though this is far from clear in the minutes.
		FATHER ROMANIDES: I am surprised at some of the claims of oversight, since much of my paper is devoted to the role of Leo' s Tome, the Christology of Theodoret and its relation to Leo' s Christology, and the manner in which Theodoret and Ibas were rehabilitated at Chalcedon.
	www.orthodoxunity.org /article07.html (2970 words)

	Arianism Versus the Council of Nicaea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The most important statement in the creed that affirms "that the Son shares the same being as the Father and is therefore fully divine" was the phrase "of one substance (homoousios) with the Father" (Davis 1987, 61).
		The Cappadocian Fathers Basil of Caesarea, Gregory Nazianzen and Gregory of Nyssa were associated with Homoiousians.
		By using the term homoiousios the Cappadocian Fathers "had never meant to deny the unity but only to preserve the distinction of persons (Ward 1955, 58)." Both came to the conclusion that although they used different terms what they meant to say was the same.
	www.monksofadoration.org /arianism.html (3111 words)

	Jews, Christians and Muslims have a common father, Prophet Abraham, the patriarch of monotheism
		Identifying the eternal Godhead with the Father and regarding the Logos as no more than a power or quality of the Father, he said that before time began the Father had created the Son by the power of the Word to be His agent in creation.
		By using the term homoiousios the Cappadocian Fathers "had never meant to deny the unity but only to preserve the distinction of persons (Ward 1955, 58)." Both came to the conclusion that although they used different terms what they meant to say was the same.
		This was especially true with the term homoousios (of the same substance) used by the Council to describe the relationship between the Father and the Son.
	www.why-christians-convert-to-islam.com /exhibitDarius.htm (3089 words)

	St. Gregory Palamas and the Tradition of the Fathers
		The Church is equally committed to the kerygma of the Apostles and to the dogma of the Fathers.
		It is usual to regard St. John of Damascus as the "last Father" in the East, and St. Gregory the Dialogos or Isidore of Seville as "the last" in the West.
		It is not difficult to trace most of his views and motives back to the Cappadocian Fathers and to St. Maximus the Confessor, who was, by the way, one of the most popular masters of Byzantine thought and devotion.
	www.orthodoxinfo.com /phronema/florov_palamas.aspx (5027 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Basil the Great
		Basil the Elder, father of St. Basil the Great, was the son of a Christian of good birth and his wife, Macrina (Acta SS., January, II), both of whom suffered for the faith during the persecution of Maximinus Galerius (305-314), spending several years of hardship in the wild mountains of Pontus.
		Under the care of his father and his grandmother, the elder Macrina, who preserved the traditions of their countryman, St.
		He was still young when his father died and the family moved to the estate of the elder Macrina at Annesi in Pontus, on the banks of the Iris.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02330b.htm (3474 words)

	Arianism and the Cappadocian Fathers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Spirit is truly holy spirit, as proceeding from the Father, not in the manner of the Son, since not by generation, but by the procession (if one must coin new terms for the sake of clarity).
		The Son is linked to the Father and the Holy Spirit in his uncreatedness: in his status and name of Only-begotten he has a unique character which does not belong either to the Supreme Deity or to the Holy Spirit.
		The difference between the Son and the Spirit is that the Son is "begotten of the Father" whilst the Holy Spirit "proceeds from the Father".
	mariannedorman.homestead.com /CappadocianFathers.html (3049 words)

	Fathers
		This is known by the extent to which a particular teaching can be found in the Church Fathers, the holy and learned men who came after the apostles, and who in most cases succeeded them as the bishops of the Church.
		A teaching found unanimously among the Fathers who write on it is certainly from the apostles and therefore revealed by God.
		The era of the Fathers of the Church is generally considered to begin with the apostolic Fathers, who were taught directly by the Apostles, and to end around 600 AD in the Latin speaking Church and 800 AD in the Greek.
	www.raphael.net /Fathers/definitions.htm (462 words)

	ST. CYRIL'S "ONE PHYSIS OR HYPOSTASIS OF GOD THE LOGOS INCARNATE" AND CHALCEDON
		To the objection that two natures after the union means a predication of two separate kinds of names, divine and human, to two separate natures, Cyril replies that to divide names does not mean necessarily a division of natures, hypostases, or persons, since all names are predicated of the one Logos.
		He Who was born of the Virgin, according to Theodoret, is consubstantial with the Father according to His Godhead and consubstantial with us according to His Manhood.
		Thus, when Theodoret says that He Who was born of the Virgin is consubstantial with God the Father, he does not mean that He Who is consubstantial with the Father was born of Mary in the flesh.
	www.romanity.org /htm/rom.08.en.st._cyrils_one_physis_or_hypostasis_of_god_the_log.htm (9489 words)

	Church Fathers - OrthodoxWiki
		The Church Fathers or Fathers of the Church are influential theologians and writers in the Church, particularly those of the first five centuries of Christian history.
		Famous Latin Fathers include Tertullian, St. Augustine of Hippo, St. Ambrose of Milan, and St. Jerome, the translator of the Vulgate; famous Greek Fathers include St. Irenaeus of Lyons (whose work has survived only in Latin translation), Clement of Alexandria, Origen, St. Athanasius of Alexandria, St. John Chrysostom, and the three Cappadocian Fathers, Ss.
		Though the Roman Catholic Church regards the 8th century St. John of Damascus to be the last of the Church Fathers, the Orthodox Church does not consider the age of Church Fathers to be over at all and it includes later influential writers in the term.
	www.orthodoxwiki.org /Church_Fathers (345 words)

	Cappadocia: St Gregory of Naziansus
		The second of the three Cappadocian Fathers, St. Gregory’s life is also very closely tied with a vehement defense of the First Ecumenical Council, held in Nicaea in 325, and its definition of the Son as being of the same substance as the Father.
		His battle, like that of the other two great Cappadocians was especially against the later Neo-Arian movement headed by Aetius of Antioch and later Eunomius of Cyzicus, as well as imperial intrigues and unruly mobs, which for the quiet, reserved and melancholy Gregory were a source of enormous torment.
		He continued to help his father, and was in fact appointed bishop of Nazianzus upon the death of his father (again by Basil).
	www.turizm.net /cities/cappadocia/stgregoryofnazzi.htm (1091 words)

	Untitled Document
		Cappadocian anthropology represented something new: it was based on the mystery of the Incarnation and on the theology of the Trinity as it was formulated by the Cappadocians.
		A central concern will be the role of the Cappadocians for Byzantine aesthetics and the theology of the icon, an aspect of Orthodox tradition that sets it apart form Judaism and Islam as well as Western theology.
		He is the author of The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition: from Plato to Denys (1981), Discerning the Mystery: an Essay on the Nature of Theology (1983), Denys the Areopagite (1989), Maximus the Confessor (1996), and most recently St John Damascene: Tradition and Originality in Byzantine Theology (2002).
	www.bek.no /~nikko/CAS/casheimeside1.htm (1299 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.02.37
		The book is organized in three sections, which are further divided into chapters: "Fathers and Sons," "Mothers and Daughters," and "Friendship." The simplicity and clarity of the chapters belie the vast amount of reading and meticulous historical reconstruction on Van Dam's part.
		The social responsibilities of running a household, of "mothering and fathering" those of the household, and the daily work defined by gender continued unabated for both sexes, despite the vow of celibacy.
		His control of a sizeable number of sources, especially the Cappadocians' correspondence, is impressive, as he analyzes a lifetime of experiences in the friendships of the three bishops.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2005/2005-02-37.html (1747 words)

	Table of Contents: Families and Friends in Late Roman Cappadocia
		The grandparents of Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nyssa and the father of Gregory of Nazianzus were born in a Roman empire that was finally beginning to recover from the near breakdown of the mid-third century.
		Since all three of the Cappadocian Fathers were at the same time pondering the theology of the Trinity, it is reasonable to speculate that their personal experiences might have influenced their thinking about God the Father and Jesus Christ the Son.
		Even though the Cappadocian Fathers and some of their distinguished contemporaries are the main actors, this book is primarily a study of the dynamics and the emotions of family relationships and friendships.
	www.upenn.edu /pennpress/book/toc/13924.html (2755 words)

	IBSS - The Bible - Old Testament: Church Fathers
		The early church fathers is another source for OT quotations, and how they understood the OT text.
		These homilies were held in high esteem by the early church fathers.
		Along with his brother Gregory of Nyssa and his friend Gregory of Nazianzus they are know as the "Cappadocian Fathers." Basil was born about 330 AD and succeeded Eusebius as bishop of Caesarea in 370 and died in 379 AD.
	www.bibleandscience.com /bible/sources/churchfathers.htm (393 words)

	Church Fathers - OrthodoxWiki
		The Church Fathers or Fathers of the Church are influential theologians and writers in the Church, particularly those of the first five centuries of Christian history.
		Famous Latin Fathers include Tertullian, St. Augustine of Hippo, St. Ambrose of Milan, and St. Jerome, the translator of the Vulgate; famous Greek Fathers include St. Irenaeus of Lyons (whose work has survived only in Latin translation), Clement of Alexandria, Origen, St. Athanasius of Alexandria, St. John Chrysostom, and the three Cappadocian Fathers, Ss.
		Though the Roman Catholic Church regards the 8th century St. John of Damascus to be the last of the Church Fathers, the Orthodox Church does not consider the age of Church Fathers to be over at all and it includes later influential writers in the term.
	orthodoxwiki.org /Church_Fathers (482 words)

	Theological Glossary of Christology
		Cappadocian Father and political leader; friend of Gregory of Nazianzus, brother of Gregory of Nyssa.
		The oneness of the Trinity –; distinguished from the hypostasis, the threeness by the early Church Fathers.
		Eucharistic theory of some early Church Fathers; there is a change in the (internal) properties of the bread and wine so that they actually become Christ's body and blood.
	www.behindthegrove.org.uk /resources/christology.htm (1741 words)

	The Filioque: An Orthodox Guide
		Since the Father was the cause of both the Son and the Holy Spirit, the ousia of the Father was the ousia of both the Son and the Holy Spirit — in the language of the First Ecumenical Synod, both the Son and the Holy Spirit were homoousios with the Father.
		The Father is not begotten; the Son is begotten of the Father; the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son.
		The Father is not merely the Father of the Son.
	www.geocities.com /trvalentine/orthodox/workinprog_filioque.html (18466 words)

	Saint Gregory of Nyssa \| Biography and Online Writings \| The Cappadocian Fathers -Welcome to The Crossroads Initiative
		Gregory of Nyssa died around the year 395 AD and is revered as one of the greatest of the Eastern Church Fathers.
		He, his brother Basil and their friend St. Gregory of Nazianzen, are known as the Cappadocian Fathers, from the region in modern Turkey from which they came.
		Though the ranks of the fathers include a tremendous variety of cultures, locales, and personalities, there is surprising consensus that emerges from them on a variety of the most pressing questions of our day.
	www.crossroadsinitiative.com /library_author/52/St._Gregory_of_Nyssa.html (463 words)

	Saint Basil the Great:Biography & Online Writings of a Cappadocian Father and Doctor of the Church -Welcome to The ...
		In 370 Basil was chosen to succeed Eusebius as bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia.
		Basil the Great was one of the most influential of the Greek Fathers of the Church during the "Golden Age of the Fathers" (the 4th and 5th Centuries).
		Though the ranks of the fathers include a tremendous variety of cultures, locales, and personalities, there is surprising consensus that emerges from them on a variety of the most pressing questions of our day.
	crossroadsinitiative.com /library_author/21/St._Basil_the_Great.html (495 words)

	Patristics Studies, Essays, Commentary and Papers - Monachos.net
		Epinoia and Ennoia: the Cappadocian Fathers on Essence/Energy and the Human Knowledge of God
		A study of the Cappadocian Fathers' understanding of human knowledge of God as a process of conceptualisation (epinoia) based on the perception (ennoia) of God's energies.
		A study of the Cappadocian conception of human nature as evidenced in St Basil's 38th epistle, and their use of the human nature model as a basis for a conception of the Trinity.
	www.monachos.net /patristics/studies.shtml (717 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.11.21
		The three books were written together as the many footnotes referring to the two other parts of this trilogy attest, and it may be difficult to give a fair review of one part of the trilogy without having read the two others.
		The focus is on Cappadocia, not the Cappadocian Fathers" (p.
		Van Dam's book is a pleasant old-fashioned introduction to the Cappadocian Fathers; it cannot pretend to be a regional history.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2003/2003-11-21.html (1026 words)

	Cappadocian Fathers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Two brothers and a close friend, these three theologians became defenders of Nicene orthodoxy and carried forward the work of Origen, Tertullian, and Athanasius in formulating the doctrine of the Trinity.
		The Cappadocian fathers contributed to the emergence of a doctrine of the Trinity that stood between the extremes of Arianism and monarchianism.
		While Athanasius had emphasized the single substance of the Godhead through the concept homoousios, the Cappadocians accented the idea of hypostasis or "person," which made it possible to speak in a balanced way of the Trinity as a Godhead of one substance and three persons.
	www.lutherproductions.com /historytutor/basic/basic/early/people/cappadocian.htm (341 words)

	Thursday, June 14, 2001 - Year C - Commemoration of the Cappadocian Fathers
		FOCUS: The Good News is the unity of the Godhead—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—and the grace bestowed by God are witnessed to us since the early days of the church by theologians such as Basil, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa.
		Arius, a third century church leader from the area around Alexandria, Egypt, got into a conflict with his bishop and other church leaders when Arius preached that only God the Father is eternal and preexistent.
		With this background, let’s place the Cappadocian Fathers in their proper context.
	www.abidingpresence-beltsville.org /Sermons/2000-01/20010614-CappadocianFathers.htm (890 words)

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