<scp>A</scp> frican Church Fathers
Abstrak
Abstract The African Church Fathers (Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Cyprian, Lactantius, Optatus of Milevi, Augustine) belonged to the rather short‐lived African Church of the first five centuries of Christianity. It was a soil mostly plowed by sufferings from persecutions and fertilized by heresies and threatening schisms. In fact, it was in the middle of all the turmoil of this particular region, where the heroism of numerous martyrs shone most gloriously, that the Latin patristic tradition, although about a hundred years younger than the Greek one, took its roots and flourished in a quite particular way, being both related to and distant from the Greek approach to Sacred Scripture as well as to the way it should be lived. Thus the Fathers originating from North Africa should be seen as the founders of the Latin Church and its proper spirituality.
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Anna Djintcharadzé
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2011
- Bahasa
- en
- Sumber Database
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- DOI
- 10.1002/9780470670606.wbecc0013
- Akses
- Open Access ✓