patristic
/puh-tris-tik/US // pəˈtrɪs tɪk //UK // (pəˈtrɪstɪk) //
教父式的,教父式,教父级,教父级的
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : of or relating to the fathers of the Christian church or their writings.
Examples
A paragraph sign sets off a list of indexes to various books, chiefly editions of the classics and Biblical or patristic writings.
Mediæval Christianity is at one with patristic, on this head.
Law and regularity, not arbitrary intervention, was the patristic ideal of creation.
In patristic study he may have stood beneath Luther; in originality and profoundness of thought he was certainly inferior to More.
We are thus carried back immeasurably beyond the six thousand years of Patristic chronology.
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