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Definition of Patrology

1. Noun. The writings of the early Church Fathers.

2. Noun. The study of the lives, writings, and doctrines of the Church Fathers.

Definition of Patrology

1. Noun. The study of the lives and works (especially the writings) of the Church Fathers ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Patrology

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patrolwomen patron patron saint patron saints patronage patronages patronal patronate patroness patronesses

Literary usage of Patrology

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... he should know the various Christian dogmas bearing on the Bible and their history; finally Dt, must be instructed in patrology, ecclesiastical history, ..."

2. Theological Propædeutic: A General Introduction to the Study of Theology by Philip Schaff, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1893)
"patrology, or Patristic, is a biographical and literary account of the Christian Fathers and ecclesiastical writers during the Greece-Roman age of ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"Conceptions of Patristics and patrology (J 5) Scope of the Department (§ 6). ... [Patristics and patrology are the names of that department of theology ..."

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