या प्रारंभिक चर्च के पूर्वजों के लेखन से संबंधित

Adjective:

चर्च-धर्मशास्‍त्र, ईसाई धर्माचर्यो (‍की रचनाओं के अध्‍ययन) से संबंधित या उन रचनाओं के अध्‍ययन का,

patristic's Usage Examples:

In this place it is enough to consider the general influence of the patristic writings upon Christian doctrine and biblical interpretation.

The reader to whom the study is new will gain some idea of the bulk of the extant patristic literature, if we add that in Migne's collection ninety-six large volumes are occupied with the Greek fathers from Clement of Rome to John of Damascus, and seventysix with the Latin fathers from Tertullian to Gregory the Great.2 For a discussion of the more important fathers the student is referred to the articles which deal with them separately.

The Latin West was scarcely less productive; it is enough to mention Hilary of Poitiers, Ambrose of Milan, Augustine of Hippo, Leo of Rome, Jerome, Rufinus, and a father lately restored to his place in patristic literature, Niceta of Remesiana.'

5 The term patres apostolici is due to the patristic scholars of the 17th century: see Lightfoot, St Clement of Rome, i.

The ante-Nicene period of patristic literature opens with the "apostolic fathers," 5 i.e.

In these products of the 2nd and 3rd centuries there is much which in its own way was not surpassed by any of the later patristic writings.

It is clear that in the circumstances the terms "father," "patristic," "patrology" must be used with much elasticity, since it is now too late to substitute for them any more comprehensive terms.

In the West the Church enters the medieval stage of its history with the death of Gregory, while in the East even John of Damascus is rather a compiler of patristic teaching than a true "father."

For ordinary purposes it is best to make the patristic period conterminous with the life 1 See Buxtorf, s.v.

He also published works on the Last Days of the Life of Jesus, on Judaism in the Time of Christ, on John of Damascus (1879) and an Examination of the Vatican Dogma in the Light of Patristic Exegesis of the New Testament.

patristic's Meaning':

of or relating to the writings of the early church fathers