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Definition of Patristic
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the writings of the early church fathers.
Partainyms: Church Father, Church Father
Derivative terms: Patristics, Patristics, Patristics
Definition of Patristic
1. a. Of or pertaining to the Fathers of the Christian church.
Definition of Patristic
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the ''fathers'' of the early Christian church, especially to their writings ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Patristic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patristic
Literary usage of Patristic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mediaeval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in by Henry Osborn Taylor (1919)
"... IN THE APPROPRIATION OF THE patristic AND ANTIQUE WITH the conversion of Teuton
peoples and their introduction to the Latin culture accompanying the new ..."
2. The New Testament in the original Greek by Brooke Foss Westcott, Fenton John Anthony Hort (1896)
"the reading opposed to that of the primary Greek MSS has patristic ... The patristic
evidence which can appreciably come into account must thus be limited ..."
3. Theological Propædeutic: A General Introduction to the Study of Theology by Philip Schaff, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1893)
"The patristic literature is exceedingly rich. It began with ST. ... patristic
learning has been cultivated mostly by Roman Catholic and Anglican scholars ..."
4. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1875)
"CHRISTIC AND patristic BAPTISM.!—This is the fourth and concluding volume of Dr.
Dale's Series on Baptism. In the preceding volumes he has treated ..."
5. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1875)
"... patristic BAPTISM.!—This is the fourth and concluding volume of Dr. Dale's Series
on Baptism. In the preceding volumes he has treated successively ..."
6. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1889)
"The Beginnings of patristic Literature.—According to the established rule of the
church we have to distinguish between New Testament and patristic ..."