The Church Fathers, Early Church Fathers, Christian Fathers, or Fathers of the Church were ancient and influential Christian theologians and writers who...

The Apostolic Fathers, also known as the Ante-Nicene Fathers, were core Christian theologians among the Church Fathers who lived in the 1st and 2nd centuries...

two tables. Ante-Nicene Fathers (book) Apostolic Fathers Cappadocian Fathers Church Fathers Desert Fathers Doctors of the Church List of early Christian...

Apophthegmata Patrum (Sayings of the Desert Fathers). The small communities founded by the Desert Fathers were the beginning of Christian monasticism...

whether the earliest Church Fathers in Christian history believed in the doctrine of the Trinity – the Christian doctrine that God the Father, the Son (Jesus...

Catholic theology, the writings of the Church Fathers are considered to be sacred tradition. While many Church Fathers taught that eternal hellfire awaits...

Pilgrim Fathers knelt down in prayer on the quay near the church. Much later, American visitors gave the church its third name, Pilgrim Fathers' Church. The...

designated Church Fathers. The names derive from the combined forms of Latin pater and Greek πᾰτήρ (father). The period of the Church Fathers, commonly...

collection of Early Church Fathers. According to the surviving fragments of the work Exposition of the Sayings of the Lord of the Apostolic Father Papias of Hierapolis...

for the sacrament") Wilson, Douglas; Fischer, Ty (2005). Omnibus II: Church Fathers Through the Reformation. Veritas Press. p. 101. ISBN 978-1-932168-44-0...