patristic
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With this theological development, Father Murray argued, the ancient questions returned in a new form during patristic and medieval times.
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Cubism, from this simplified and patristic standpoint, becomes the tree in the primal garden of modernism, and Picasso and Braque its Adam and Eve.
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The author, the Rev. George J. Dyer, is a professor of patristic theology at St. Mary of the Lake Seminary near Chicago.
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In these ecumenical times, argued Father Walter J. Burghardt, S.J., professor of patristic theology at the Jesuit Seminary in Woodstock, Md., theologians are obliged to look harder at the issues that divide Christians.
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They would rely on their rosary every night, while in another room I read patristic theology.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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