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 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. I
6) "that the Father dwells in a secret light, the power of the Son in the sun, and His wisdom in the moon, and the Holy Spirit in the air." It was this employment of the phraseology of Scripture to convey doctrines utterly unscriptural that rendered their teaching such a snare to the unwary.
Our Father in heaven might have ordered His creation simply in a utilitarian way, letting, for example, hunger be satisfied without any of the pleasures of taste, and so of the other senses.
The Greek fathers, however, did not consider hereditary corruption to be proper sin or guilt at all, but only defect, weakness, or disease.
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 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. XIV
Together with these is a separate "Index of subjects contained in the edition of the Canons of the Apostles, Councils and Holy Fathers with Commentaries," Moscow, 1888, 58 pages in octavo.
692, the 7th Ecumenical, the First-and-Second [council of Constantinople] and that in the church of St. Sophia) and the Canons of the 13 Holy Fathers.
In the printed "Kormchaja" the canons are set forth, not in their full text, but in a shortened form which sometimes gives but a very insufficient representation of the contents of the original.
www.godrules.net /library/fathers/pnf14s06.htm   (1942 words)

  
 Josephus in the Ante-Nicene Fathers: all the citations
Results from footnotes or Nicene/Post-Nicene Fathers have been ignored, as the latter will know Eusebius, of course.
Josephus in the Ante-Nicene Fathers: all the citations
who were surnamed the Masters, and the eminent Aristobulus, who was one of the Seventy who translated the sacred and holy Scriptures of the Hebrews for Ptolemy Philadelphus and his father, and dedicated his exegetical books on the law of Moses to the same kings.
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 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. III
I entreat you therefore, holy, venerable and saintly father, not to permit a storm of ill will to be raised against me because of this, nor to sanction the employment of partisanship and of calumny-weapons which ought never to be used in the Church of God.
I believe that the Trinity is of one nature and godhead, of one and the same power and substance; so that between the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost there is no diversity at all, except that the one is the Father, the second the Son, and the third the Holy Ghost.
If, therefore, there is anything to praise in these ideas, the praise does not belong to me; and similarly as to anything to which blame may attach.
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 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1--St. Augustine: Doctrinal-Moral Treatises by Schaff, Philip - Wesleyan Publishing House
The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Ireneaus
Early Church Fathers Series: Ante-Nicene Fathers; Fathers of the Second Century: Fathers of the Second Century, Hermas, Tatian, Theophilus...
Early Church Fathers Series: Ante-Nicene Fathers: Fathers of the Third Century: Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius...
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 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. IX
This volume of the series of Nicene Fathers has been unfortunately delayed, when I consented in the first instance to edit the volume, it was with the distinct understanding that I could not myself undertake the translation, but that I would do my best to find translators and see the work through the press.
It will be seen that the style generally leans to the side of freedom; but I believe that it will be found to be the freedom of the scholar who is really true to his text while transfusing it into another tongue, and not the clumsy approximation which only means failure.
He might be said to be the one Latin theologian before the age of St. Augustine and St. Leo.
www.tparents.org /Library/Religion/Christian/Fathers/NPNF2-09/Npnf2-09-02.htm   (1223 words)

  
 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers/Series 2 (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers) by Philip Schaff, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0802881297
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers/Series 2 (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers) by Philip Schaff, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0802881297
A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fat...
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 Topic 1.3.2 Canon of Scripture
The two apostolic fathers listed in Davis' table, Ignatius of Antioch (Ig) and Polycarp of Smyrna (Po), in the first two decades of the 2nd century together refer to barely half of the NT documents.
The earliest segment, the Apostolic Fathers written largely during the first half of the second century, merely quote from or else contain allusions to most of the writings found in the NT, but not all of them by any means.
The church father Papias at the beginning of the second century associated Mark with Peter and the contents of the Marcan gospel as the reflections of Peter.
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 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. IV
After the death of his father and mother he was left alone with one little sister: his age was about eighteen or twenty, and on him the care both of home and sister rested.
And certainly when he died, all as having been bereft of a father, consoled themselves solely by their remembrances of him, preserving at the same time his counsel and advice.
But when Antony saw that the bread was the cause of trouble and hardships to some of them, to spare the monks this, he resolved to ask some of those who came to bring him a spade, an axe, and a little corn.
www.bhsu.edu /artssciences/asfaculty/dsalomon/ld/life.htm   (20559 words)

  
 Patristic Studies
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.
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.
www.sspeterpaul.org /Patristics.htm   (460 words)

  
 Nicene and Post - Nicene Fathers Saint Jerome The Early Church Fathers Ser 2 Volume 6 :: Nicene and Post - Nicene Fathers Saint Jerome The Early Church Fathers Ser 2 Volume 6 books, reviews and more
Philip Schaff Henry Wace "Nicene and Post - Nicene Fathers Saint Jerome The Early Church Fathers Ser 2 Volume 6".
Nicene and Post - Nicene Fathers Saint Jerome The Early Church Fathers Ser 2 Volume 6
Nicene and Post - Nicene Fathers Saint Jerome The Early Church Fathers Ser 2 Volume 6 :: Nicene and Post - Nicene Fathers Saint Jerome The Early Church Fathers Ser 2 Volume 6 books, reviews and more
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 The Manila Times Internet Edition REGIONS > A Protestant view on the papacy
Phillip Schaff in his book Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers wrote, “As a boy, Leo was trained by Leo Magnus, the first great Latin speaking Pope and first great Italian theologian.
It was moment reminiscent of Jesus Christ’s post baptism experience as told in the Gospel.
During his second visit in 1995 in the occasion of the World Youth Day, kneeling carabaos from Pulilan town were brought to Manila the country’s beast of burden knelt before the Pope.
www.manilatimes.net /national/2005/apr/07/yehey/prov/20050407pro9.html   (977 words)

  
 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. V
Their work and their excellence is to contemplate the Father of all purity, and to beautify the lines of their own character from the Source of all beauty, so far as imitation of It is possible.
It is comprehended in the idea of the Father incorrupt; and here at the outset is a paradox, viz.
Chapter V. Now we declare that Virginity is man's "fellow-worker" and helper in achieving the aim of this lofty passion.
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 Writings of the Early Church Fathers
The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1 consists of eight volumes of the writings of St. Augustine, the most influential of the early Church Fathers, and six volumes of the treatises and homilies of St. Chrysostom.
Presented in three sections:Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene series 1 and 2, this complete set of the writings of the Early Church Fathers, translated into English, provides a wealth of knowledge to any student of the Christianity.
The Ante-Nicene Fathers consist of 10 volumes spaning the time from the Apostolic Fathers to various third and fourth century sources.
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 Athanasius and Jovian
The translation is that in the Library of Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers and available in its entirety on the World Wide Web, together with the other volumes in the series.
And yet our holy Fathers, as we said before, came promptly together at the Synod at Nicea, and anathematised them, and confessed in writing the faith of the Catholic Church, so that, this being everywhere preached, the heresy kindled by the heretics might be quenched.
Nor yet did they make the Holy Spirit alien from the Father and the Son, but rather glorified Him together with the Father and the Son, in the one faith of the Holy Triad, because there is in the Holy Triad also one Godhead.
www.ucalgary.ca /~vandersp/Courses/texts/jovian/athajovi.html   (1699 words)

  
 How accurate are the quotations in Wheless' Forgery in Christianity?
Father Jerome's own high regard for truth and his zeal in propaganda of fables for edification of the ignorant ex-pagan Christians is illustrated in numberless instances.
The great Church Father, Bishop St. Augustine (of whom more hereafter), was wise to the psychology of -- at least -- Pagan religion -- the mode of its incipience and the manner of its age-long persistence.
Chrysostom was one of the Greek Fathers of the Church, concerning whom Dr. (later Cardinal) Newman thus apologetically spoke: "The Greek Fathers thought that, when there was a justa causa, an untruth need not be a lie.
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 Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern United States - Coptic Orthodox Church
Without the Apostolic Fathers and those holy Fathers who followed in their footsteps we would not have the blessings of "the authentic and unchanged faith" in which we have today.
As we believe that the Coptic Orthodox Church is the Holy and Sacred Body of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, we also believe that there is a direct and strong connection between our Coptic Church's Fathers, our holy Apostles, and the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.
Therefore, the Faith, which was submitted by our Lord Jesus Christ to His holy Apostles, was the same faith submitted to their holy successors who preserved it and submitted it unchanged to their children throughout all the generations of Coptic Christianity.
www.suscopts.org /copt/patrology.html   (212 words)

  
 Sin / Harmartiology & the Early Church
Louis Bouyer, The Spirituality of the New Testament and the Fathers.
Weaver, Parts 2-3 "The Exegesis of Romans 5:12 Among the Greek Fathers and Its Implications for the Doctrine of Original Sin: The 5th-12th Centuries," St.
Cyprian, Letters, The Fathers of the Church, Vol.
www.earlychurch.org.uk /sin.php   (356 words)

  
 FT May 2004: Books in Review: Credo: Historical and Theological Guide to Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition
While at Union he advanced the program of Mercersburg by making available classical texts from the Christian tradition, most notably the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, still the most complete collection of translations of the Church Fathers in English.
It is a small step from the language of the Bible to the words of the Apostles’ Creed, “I believe in God the Father Almighty,” or the opening phrase of the Nicene Creed, “We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth.”
With the Nicene Creed as the framework, the index lists the various Christian doctrines under accessible rubrics (such as “became incarnate,” “his kingdom will have no end,” “who spoke through the prophets”) and provides extensive references to creeds and confessions in which the doctrines are expounded.
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 The Very Best Books : Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: First Series, 14 Volumes
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: First Series, 14 Volumes
The writings of St. Augustine and St. John Chrysostom are invaluable especially when wanting to study the foundations of the Latin West.
So I had to put away the cheap ink and paper.
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 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers : NPNF
The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers is a set of books containing translations of early Christian writings into English.
The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers is a set of books containingtranslations of early Christian writings into English.
The full text of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers is freely available at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/)
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 Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Wace, Rev. Principal Henry, D.D.
Joint editor of “A Dictionary of Christian Biography” and of “A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers.” Editor of “The Speaker’s Commentary on the Apocrypha.”
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 CHURCH FATHERS: Letter 215 (St. Basil)
I have therefore given my letter to the government treasurer, who is travelling by the imperial post, and I have charged him to shew the letter to you first.
I took the earliest opportunity of writing to the most admirable Count Terentius, thinking it better to write to him on the subject in hand by means of strangers, and being anxious that oar very dear brother Acacius shall not be inconvenienced by any delay.
I cannot understand how it is that no one has told you that the road to Rome is wholly impracticable in winter, the country between Constantinople and out' own regions being full of enemies.
www.newadvent.org /Fathers/3202215.htm   (201 words)

  
 nicea1.txt
This audacious attempt to set at nought the Nicene decrees, and to falsify both history and tradition was regarded with the utmost indignation by the leaders of the Christian church.
Although the conditions of the mercantile community in the East and the West differed materially in some respects, the fathers of the two churches are equally explicit and systematic in their condemnation of the practice of usury.
TIle difficulty presented by the Nicene canon does not appear to have presented itself to the council, nor was any one found to urge the undoubted claims of the see of Caesarea.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/basis/nicea1.txt   (16062 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Christianity
If the Nicene Creed cannot be proved article by article from the sacred records, interpreted by the tradition that preceded them and determined their canon, then the rationalist assertion will have some support.
When, in St. John's gospel (xiv, 16, 17), He says; "And I will ask the Father, and he shall give you another Paraclete, that he may abide with you forever, the spirit of truth", it is impossible to believe that what He promises is a mere abstraction, not a person like Himself.
Christ's clear and definite teaching, moreover, about the life to come, the final judgment resulting in an eternity of happiness or misery, the strict responsibility which attaches to the smallest human actions, is in great contrast to the current Jewish eschatology.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/03712a.htm   (8663 words)

  
 Hall of Church History—The Church Fathers
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.
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.
www.gty.org /~phil/fathers.htm   (989 words)

  
 Prolegomena
A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church
When it was first undertaken Cassian's design already was to follow it up by a second treatise containing the Conferences of the Fathers, to which he several times alludes in the Institutes as a forthcoming work,[73] and which, like the companion volume, was undertaken at Castor's instigation.
xlii.) it is ordered that after supper the brethren should assemble together, and one of them should read the Conferences, or Lives of the Fathers, or any other book calculated to edify.
www.osb.org /lectio/cassian/prolegom.html   (6375 words)

  
 Catholic First Information Center, Church Fathers Index
Volume 7 - 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
Volume 1 - The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus: Clement; Mathetes; Polycarp; Ignatius; Barnabas; Papias; Justin Martyr; Irenaeus
Volume 8 - Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs; Theodotus: Excerpts; Epistles Concerning Virginity; Pseudo-Clementine Literature; Apocrypha of the New Testament; Decretals; Memoirs of Edessa and Ancient Syriac Documents; Remains of the Second and Third Centuries
www.catholicfirst.com /churchfathersindex.cfm   (646 words)

  
 St. Ambrose: Select Works and Letters (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 2) - Hotel Resource Book Store
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Saint Jerome (The Early Church Fathers Ser 2,...
Cyril of Jerusalem/S. Gregory Nazianzen (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 2)
This volume of the "Nicene and P-Nicene Fathers" series contains the principle works of St Ambrose, the bishop of Milan, who was an able statesman and a vigorous defender of the Catholic faith during the late 4th century.
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 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. XII
At the end a long series of quotations from Hilary, Ambrose and other Fathers bearing upon the doctrine are also added, but these also are dispensed with in accordance with our general practice, as we are now presenting Leo and no one else to the reader.]
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