In the patristic era, this was actually the Western view held by St Augustine.

Nevertheless, by the close of the Patristic era, a male hierarchy had established itself over church affairs, with priests and bishops running the congregations.

Augustine of Hippo was a significant apologist of the Patristic era.

The development of positive theology went hand in hand with the progress of research into the Patristic Era and into the history of dogma.

Church History (particularly the Patristic era, the Reformation, and the Church in Nineteenth Century England).

He is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers in Western Christianity for his writings in the Patristic Era.

Commencing with the Patristic era O'Connell sees startling parallels with our own era: What does it mean to be a Christian in a "pagan" world?

Patristic bishops of the patristic era such as Augustine argued that the Jews should be left alive and suffering as a perpetual reminder of their murder of Christ.

The primary focus of his work was to develop his own ontology of personhood derived from an extensive investigation of Greek philosophy, patristic era writings and modern rationalist philosophy.

Moral theology was mostly undifferentiated from theology in general during the patristic era, and is found in the homilies, letters and commentaries on Scripture of the early Church fathers.

Furthermore, the early church (and in particular during the great patristic era of the first five centuries AD), despite its many internal disagreements on matters of doctrine, saw redemption in thoroughly dramatic terms.

The patristic era, which extends roughly from 150 AD to 500 AD, was arguably harsher than the Middle Ages themselves in attributing social roles to women, hence the expression patriarchy used by modern-day feminists.

Another view of modern scholars is that the New Testament Devil and his demons became augmented by the fathers of the patristic era and were made even more devilish, as it were, than they are in the Bible.

In their accounts of the doctrinal controversies of the patristic era, English and Norman historians do not hesitate in the naming of heretics nor do they doubt the righteousness of the persecution of their followers.

However, the Orthodox do not consider the "Patristic era" to be a thing of the past, but that it continues in an unbroken succession of enlightened teachers (i.e., the saints, especially those who have left us theological writings) from the Apostles to the present day.

In Western culture, this act of creation is usually that which is described by the Genesis creation narrative, though Augustine of Hippo (354-430) gave a metaphorical interpretation of the Genesis creation as early as the Patristic era.

How has this changed by the end of the Patristic period?

It is rich in fragments from writings of the Patristic period which are now lost.

Not until the later patristic period did the meaning "to exercise authority" come to predominate.

In the patristic period, the need for self-definition and self-understanding produced the 'creed'.

Indeed we may say that there has always been such a tendency, in the patristic period likewise, to collapse the distinction between the two natures.

McGrath on pp.9-10 gives four main reasons why students find it difficult to understand the importance of the patristic period to Christian doctrine.

As pointed out on page 8 of McGrath, you will hopefully find reading the patristic period to be exciting and creative.

It represents a distinct advance and yet is not without its antecedents in the Patristic period (eg.

It was during the patristic period that the New Testament canon of Scripture was put together.

Patristic period.

In addition to honoring him, there was a strong tendency in the patristic period to view his life as a typological precursor to Christ.

The Patristic Period (1st through 8th centuries)

But these are also to be found in the Patristic period and they return after the Reformation in the Modern period too.

Indeed, among the works of all the Latin authors in the patristic period, Gregory's alone were translated into Greek during his own lifetime.

According to scholar George Howard, harmonization was a widely used method of composition in the early Patristic period.

A study of philosophy from the Patristic period (3rd century A.D.) to the early Renaissance (14th-century).

The Pastor: Readings from the Patristic Period.

Religion and sexuality (see "Patristic Period" within Historical Background)

They were theological discourses that sought to establish the continuity between the Church of England and the patristic period of church history.

It was because of its noble and indispensable contribution that, from the Patristic period onwards, philosophy was called the ancilla theologiae.

Indeed her title of the patristic period,theotokos, the God-bearer, conceives of her simply in relation to him to whom she gave birth.

Early Christian thought, in particular in the patristic period, tends to be intuitional and mystical, and is less reliant on reason and logical argument.

In the Christian West from the patristic period on, Judith was invoked in a wide variety of texts as a multi-faceted allegorical figure.

Dr Gillian Evans (History Faculty) Intellectual history from the patristic period to the 15th century.

Philosophy: The classical philosophy and the medieval and patristic periods resources are valuable to Religious studies, and the particular philosphers emphasized do not overlap.