Definition of Church father

1. Noun. (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom.


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Literary usage of Church father

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

1. The Principle of Protestantism as Related to the Present State of the Church by Philip Schaff (1845)
"No man who rejects this idea entirely, ean penetrate the spirit of any of the early centuries, or do justice to the character of a single church father. ..."

2. The Making of the New Testament by Benjamin Wisner Bacon (1912)
"CHAPTER IV PAUL AS PRISONER AND church father THE second period of Paul's literary career begins after an interval of several years. ..."

3. The Doctrine of Sacred Scripture: A Critical, Historical, and Dogmatic by George Trumbull Ladd (1883)
"The escape from the logical consequences of such concessions could always be made, by this church father, through the mystical interpretation. ..."

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