"The Mass is very ritualistic, filled with scriptural and what we would call 'patristic' allusions.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Westword | Complete Issue] Reference

It is a very delightful book, full of patristic learning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850] Reference

Calvin was a master of patristic and scholastic learning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination] Reference

An even more popular and widely diffused Greek patristic work in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

The library of Ramsey was also remarkably rich in patristic lore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bibliomania in the Middle Ages] Reference

The lessons read at the third nocturn are patristic homilies on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

The patristic texts are also fully examined by Abbé Calippe in 'Le.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching] Reference

Epistles; Lent, patristic homilies (Genesis on Sundays); Passion-tide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

Law and regularity, not arbitrary intervention, was the patristic ideal of creation.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Genesis of Species] Reference

The early patristic writers assumed, as did Roman law, that consent defined a marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane Minogue: Traditional Marriage and the Straw-Horse Argument] Reference

In Latin patristic writings things that are defuncta and deformata need to be reformed.    From Wordnik.com.  [REFORMATION] Reference

Salutati, and Valla and which was supportable from both Greek and Latin classical and patristic texts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

All that we find in patristic literature concerning marriage and the family strikes us by its low level.    From Wordnik.com.  [LOVE] Reference

The principal biblical and patristic texts are discussed in A. Nygren, Den kristna kärlekstanden genom tiderna.    From Wordnik.com.  [FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY] Reference

Metaphysics, particularly from Plato and Neo-Platonism in the patristic period, and from Aristotle in the Middle Ages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge] Reference

Abelard assembles a series of 158 questions, each of which is furnished with patristic citations that imply a positive answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Abelard] Reference

Monastic influence accounts for the practice of adding to the reading of a biblical passage some patristic commentary or exposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

Like a colossus bestriding two worlds, Augustine stands as the last patristic and the first medieval father of Western Christianity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler] Reference

The theological symbolism of the Middle Ages was concerned with particular intensity since patristic times with musical instruments.    From Wordnik.com.  [MUSIC AS A DIVINE ART] Reference

The collection of scriptural, patristic, and historical arguments justified Henry taking into his own hands his matrimonial affairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Scepter'd Isle]

At the same time, it was this essentially conservative genius who recast the patristic tradition into the new pattern by which European.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler] Reference

That is a conception difficult beyond all the difficulties of the most arbitrary and self-contradicting of orthodox patristic or scholastic speculations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge] Reference

Montfaucon, Massuet, Garnier, and de la Rue, and in our time Dom Pitra, editor of a valuable collection of patristic fragments, at the cloister of Solesme.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864] Reference

Several texts might be collected from the writings of the Fathers which would seem to show that according to patristic teaching the institution of slavery was unjustifiable.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching] Reference