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1 Fwd,2| the Holy Apostles and Holy Fathers, he or she touches the tips
2 Fwd,5| on to note that the Holy Fathers teach that the souls of
3 1,1 | Apostles preached, and the Fathers preserved,” as St. Athanasius
4 1,1 | sanctified by the ancient Desert Fathers. He mentions that it took
5 1,1 | authoritative of the early Church Fathers — and also regarded as a
6 1,1 | away. According to the Holy Fathers, what withholdeth is the
7 1,1 | s role by noting:~ ~Some Fathers explain that antichrist
8 1,1 | brought to salvation? Our Fathers considered the withholding
9 1,1 | adds that:~ ~The Russian Fathers of the Church ascribed particular
10 1,1 | reasons that the Russian Fathers of the Church view the Russian
11 1,1 | Apostles, the faith of the Fathers, the Orthodox faith.”~ ~
12 1,2 | the teaching of the Holy Fathers that with the creation of
13 1,11| jurisdiction. None of the Church Fathers or general councils settled
14 2,17| Nafpaktos explains that the Holy Fathers used apophatic language
15 2,20| the writings of the Holy Fathers; instead, it was a fabrication
16 2,20| the prophets, Apostles and Fathers. (Thus, many in the West
17 2,22| doctrine of theosis?~ The Greek Fathers, taking a number of scriptural
18 2,22| adds that “according to the Fathers, the simplest of senses
19 2,35| statements composed by certain Fathers of the Church.~ Fr. Michael
20 2,36| the doctrines of the Holy Fathers and dogmas; the continual
21 3,2 | made, name the four Holy Fathers who were the most responsible
22 3,2 | Ecumenical Council.~ These Fathers were Saints Athanasius of
23 3,4 | 4.~ The Cappadocian Fathers gave full meaning to what?~
24 3,4 | states that the Cappadocian Fathers preserved a delicate balance
25 3,4 | the misconception that the Fathers were somehow at odds with
26 3,5 | any canon or by any of the Fathers that the bishop of Rome
27 3,5 | as understood by the Holy Fathers. The Fathers teach that
28 3,5 | by the Holy Fathers. The Fathers teach that the grace of
29 3,5 | build My Church, the Holy Fathers never understood that the
30 3,16| salvation. As one of the Greek Fathers on Mount Athos writes concerning
31 4,11| and errors,” stated the Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical
32 4,12| the writings of the Holy Fathers. A church is the house of
33 4,12| emphasized by the Greek Fathers. As St. John of Damascus
34 4,12| leisure for reading, the Holy Fathers agreed that Christ's Incarnation,
35 4,12| of Icons, p.30].~ ~ The Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical
36 4,12| the nous (a term the Holy Fathers used to designate the eye
37 4,12| Councils, p. 550].~ ~The Greek Fathers distinguish very sharply
38 4,12| only to God. Moreover, the Fathers emphasized that the veneration
39 4,12| to the archetype, as the Fathers and teachers of the Church
40 4,17| this period that the Holy Fathers explained Scripture. Although
41 4,17| history of the Church, for the Fathers are the only source of the
42 4,17| gives short shrift to the Fathers, this subject requires further
43 4,17| explicitly equates the Holy Fathers with the Holy Apostles.
44 4,17| Also concerning the Holy Fathers, Protopresbyter Michael
45 4,17| to the works of the Holy Fathers of the Church, acknowledging
46 4,17| unanimous agreement of all the Fathers and teachers of the Church
47 4,17| sign of truth. The Holy Fathers stood for the truth, fearing
48 4,17| private opinions of the Holy Fathers or teachers of the Church
49 4,17| private opinions of certain Fathers and teachers which are not
50 4,17| Holy Apostles and the Holy Fathers, who are the Apostles' successors
51 4,17| Nafpaktos explains, the Holy Fathers are the successors of the
52 4,17| the matter of the Holy Fathers' exegesis of Scripture will
53 4,18| by representation.” The Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical
54 5,3 | monks, and the greatest Fathers and theologians have also
55 5,4 | Moreover, the greatest Fathers and theologians of Orthodoxy
56 5,4 | teachings of all the Holy Fathers and teachers of the Church,
57 5,4 | monastic saints, the Desert Fathers, of the fourth-century Egyptian
58 5,4 | on to explain, the Holy Fathers emphasize that the monastic
59 5,4 | of the early Church. The Fathers, he states, taught that
60 5,4 | these ascetics, or Holy Fathers, are men living in the world,
61 5,4 | the voices of all the Holy Fathers are summed up by Metropolitan
62 5,4 | to the definition of the Fathers, the monastic life is per
63 5,5 | as expounded by the Holy Fathers, this monastic community
64 5,5 | capitulation of certain Athonite Fathers to the ecumenical policies
65 5,7 | dissertation The Spiritual Fathers in the Ancient Eastern Church, “
66 5,8 | Man, p. 210].~ ~The Holy Fathers state that death was not
67 6,14| a schism.~ All the Holy Fathers speak as one against schism
68 6,14| in The Faith of the Early Fathers, vol. 1, p. 18].~ ~Likewise,
69 6,14| in The Faith of the Early Fathers, vol. 2, p. 6].~ ~St. Basil'
70 6,15| mention that all Orthodox Fathers presented their writings
71 6,15| Councils, or to the Church Fathers — much to the opposition
72 6,16| Apostles lived it, and the Holy Fathers handed it down to us” (Metropolitan
73 6,18| testimony of the Church Fathers, not a single one of them
74 6,18| observed that the other Fathers understood rock in this
75 6,18| faith in Christ. Since the Fathers left so complete a witness,
76 6,18| study of the teaching of the Fathers) is given a minor place
77 6,18| testimony of the Church Fathers.~ Among the Roman Catholic
78 7,6 | the writings of the Holy Fathers; it means the canons, the
79 7,7 | in the books of the Holy Fathers. On the other hand, in the
80 7,7 | Testament was formed, the Fathers and teachers of the Church
81 7,11| greatest portion of the Fathers and ecclesiastical writers.~ ~
82 7,11| and is practiced by the Fathers receives the validity of
83 7,11| Ecumenical Councils and the Holy Fathers to be of equal authority.~ ~
84 7,11| cf. 1304-05.] The Holy Fathers likewise give other examples
85 7,11| the works of the ancient Fathers and teachers of the Church;
86 7,11| teaching of Orthodoxy's Holy Fathers, its oral Tradition, its
87 7,11| anything away. The Holy Fathers have emphasized this loyalty
88 7,11| Ecumenical Councils and Holy Fathers that we owe the preservation
89 7,11| further explains that the Holy Fathers also energetically contended
90 7,11| A sizeable number of the Fathers contended through the Ecumenical
91 7,11| Characteristic of the line that the Fathers maintained in this regard
92 7,11| handed down to us by the Fathers, devising nothing outside
93 7,11| the teaching of the Greek Fathers. This harmony stems from
94 7,11| emphasized this accord among the Fathers in his observation that:~ ~
95 7,11| observation that:~ ~The Fathers and teachers of our Church
96 7,11| Apostles, and by the Holy Fathers gathered together in the [
97 7,11| the writings of the Holy Fathers, innovation and novelty
98 7,12| The writings of the Holy Fathers.~· Holy icons.~·
99 7,13| inspired Orthodoxy's Holy Fathers to canonize Scripture, or
100 7,14| Mt 6:8). And the Holy Fathers purified their hearts of
101 7,14| interpreted it through the Holy Fathers. Both the Word of God and
102 7,14| interpretation by the Holy Fathers, by the Holy Spirit. Whoever
103 7,14| The writings of the Holy Fathers are all composed under the
104 7,14| the reading of the Holy Fathers! Many people... who have
105 7,14| presumptuously rejected the Holy Fathers, who have come without any
106 7,14| From the reading of the Fathers' writings we learn the true
107 7,14| of Scriptures.~ The Holy Fathers took the narrow path of
108 7,14| received these gifts. Many Holy Fathers and ascetics of the Church
109 7,14| read the works of the Holy Fathers has been impressed by their
110 7,14| periods of time, the Holy Fathers had the same outlook, the
111 7,14| of the works of the Holy Fathers ... belong to the sphere
112 7,14| theoria in Greek. The Holy Fathers who commented on Scriptures
113 7,14| above the mind of God. The Fathers confronted these heresies,
114 7,14| Holy Apostles and the Holy Fathers, who are the Apostles' successors
115 7,14| enlightened” than the Holy Fathers. Even a cursory reading
116 7,14| God-inspired teaching of the Holy Fathers, one can readily discern
117 7,14| treasure. Recognizing that the Fathers have a spiritual wisdom
118 7,14| Instead, we must turn to the Fathers and Church Tradition to
119 7,14| the Scriptures as the Holy Fathers teach, for the Fathers are
120 7,14| Holy Fathers teach, for the Fathers are the only sure interpreters
121 7,14| which our ancestors and fathers have manifestly proclaimed
122 7,14| as in the writings of the Fathers. In all of these places,
123 7,14| neglected, for the Holy Fathers are golden links in the
124 7,14| Nafpaktos explains, the Holy Fathers were based on the method
125 7,14| Apostles, as well as the Holy Fathers of the Church, while by
126 7,14| comments further on the Holy Fathers and explains that~ ~In only
127 7,14| this fount are the Holy Fathers of the Orthodox Church [“
128 7,14| Orthodox Church [“The Holy Fathers of Orthodox Spirituality,”
129 7,14| surpassing the theology of the Fathers, and this was the starting
130 7,14| the theology of the Holy Fathers. Therefore the Scholastics,
131 7,14| themselves superior to the Holy Fathers of the Church and also considered
132 7,14| deviation from that of the Holy Fathers and saints, who, rather
133 7,14| writers in that the Holy Fathers lead one to repentance and
134 7,14| Alexey observes that the Fathers did not despise human reason —
135 7,14| the writings of the Holy Fathers are considered at all in
136 7,14| instead of listening to the Fathers, whose lives and writings
137 7,14| Holy Apostles, the Holy Fathers, and the Truth of truths,
138 7,14| implicit, then the Holy Fathers would most assuredly have
139 7,14| boundaries set by the Holy Fathers and the Creeds of the Church,
140 7,14| the guidance of the Holy Fathers who had these virtues and
141 7,14| interpreter of Scriptures than the Fathers.~ Once Protestants come
142 7,14| faithful believers and the Fathers and Mothers of the Church
143 7,15| Orthodox have on the Holy Fathers. As the Apostle Philip catechized
144 7,15| catechized the eunuch, so did the Fathers instruct their disciples
145 7,17| the Holy Apostles and Holy Fathers consistently used the text
146 7,17| of the Apostles and the Fathers.~ ~We may reasonably ask
147 7,17| quite effectively by the Fathers in discussing the Church'
148 7,19| would spring up, the Holy Fathers would oppose it at the place
149 7,19| with the heretics, the Holy Fathers who formed the Synods did
150 7,19| with, the decisions of the Fathers of the Church as it has
151 7,20| wider context of the Holy Fathers, the Church's great theologians.
152 7,20| simply to know and quote the Fathers; one must acquire a patristic
153 7,20| patristic mind. Among the Fathers, a special reverence is
154 7,20| states that the age of the Fathers did not necessarily come
155 7,22| Creed, through the Holy Fathers, the Liturgy, icons, canons,
156 8,4 | Orthodox Church. Many Holy Fathers have referred to the distinction
157 8,4 | in the first Apostolic Fathers, in the Cappadocian Fathers,
158 8,4 | Fathers, in the Cappadocian Fathers, and especially in St. Basil
159 8,7 | teaching of the Cappadocian Fathers, affirms that there is one
160 9,3 | on this passage, the Holy Fathers draw a distinction between
161 9,3 | is indestructible. As the Fathers state, the image is given
162 9,3 | the Lord of hosts.” The Fathers see this passage as an indirect
163 9,15| Patrum, the consensus of the Fathers. Blessed Augustine was the
164 9,26| hundred years from the Desert Fathers, the spirituality was the
165 9,29| likewise given by all the Holy Fathers of the Church. Moreover,
166 9,29| the nous (what the Holy Fathers call the eye of the soul)
167 9,29| from Scriptures and the Fathers in this work show, there
168 9,38| Panteleimon cites various Fathers who expound on the incorruption
169 9,42| fallen nature. The Holy Fathers state that the development
170 9,42| of men (Gen 6:2-4). The Fathers understand the sons of God
171 9,42| Adam's. According to the Fathers, Adam was in the image of
172 9,42| that both science and the Fathers confirm that early man's
173 9,42| this time because, as the Fathers suggest, man had by this
174 10,3 | There is a saying among the Fathers that “no man sins alone.”
175 10,10| which the Apostles and early Fathers taught and which the Ecumenical
176 10,10| hierarchy. All the early Church Fathers and Councils made it abundantly
177 10,14| the writings of the Holy Fathers. The same writer then makes
178 10,15| represent the consensus of the Fathers, rather than the isolated
179 10,15| so there are examples of Fathers who, while generally teaching
180 10,15| difference between these Fathers and the heretics is that
181 10,15| the heretics is that the Fathers taught these things in innocence,
182 10,16| basis for this decree, the Fathers of the council referred
183 10,16| authoritative of the early Fathers of the Church, and who was
184 10,20| in the faith: ancestors, fathers, patriarchs, prophets, Apostles,
185 10,20| dead. The testimony of the Fathers and teachers of the Church
186 10,21| and sisters, mothers and fathers, and our love for them is
187 10,21| our petition.”~ The Holy Fathers and teachers of the Church,
188 10,23| in His youth.~ The Holy Fathers have always taught that “
189 10,23| even if they have different fathers and mothers, if their parents (
190 10,23| Ezekiel 44:2). The Holy Fathers regarded these lines as
191 10,24| for Birthgiver of God. The Fathers of the Council of Ephesus (
192 10,26| had been held by the Holy Fathers. Excerpts were then given
193 10,26| were then given from these Fathers, although the teachings
194 10,26| writings of those very same Fathers who in other places proclaim
195 10,26| states, none of the ancient Fathers state that God miraculously
196 10,26| mother's womb. What these Fathers do indicate, however, is
197 10,26| with temptations, these Fathers state, Mary was victorious
198 10,26| Bishop of Milan. These two Fathers of the Western Church clearly
199 10,28| interpretation of the Holy Fathers, this sign will be the life-giving
200 10,28| Christians, as well as the Holy Fathers throughout the ages, have
201 10,28| the early Christians and Fathers mistaken in thinking the
202 11,1 | The tradition of the Holy Fathers and the Seven Ecumenical
203 11,3 | entertainments on the other.~ ~The Fathers of the Church warned of
204 11,3 | Solitary, one of the desert Fathers of the fourth century, writes:~ ~
205 11,4 | Creator Himself.~ The Holy Fathers taught that music is the
206 11,4 | innovation which the Holy Fathers explicitly prohibited and
207 11,4 | musical instruments. The Fathers, faithful guardians and
208 11,4 | of the Holy Apostles and Fathers of the Church, both in the
209 11,4 | commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the Ecumenical Councils: “
210 11,4 | Apostles and the dogmas of the Fathers have imprinted upon the
211 11,4 | unthinkable to the Holy Fathers that one should sit in the
212 11,4 | the writings of the Holy Fathers, one often finds the comparison
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