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What does patristic mean?

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  1. Of or pertaining to the fathers of the early Christian church, especially their writings.
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The hymns for the feasts of Christ and his Mother constitute a course in patristic Christology and Trinitarian theology.
Other sources, give the biblical, patristic and theological arguments for this better than me though.
Today it numbers some 20 monks, well educated, who concentrate mainly upon the publishing of patristic, ascetic and hagiological books.
It is very probable that the origin of the capitular body may be found in the bishop's household, his familia, as it existed in patristic times.
The work will give strong impetus to the growing interest in the history of patristic exegesis in the English-speaking world.
In his Confutation, he erred in citing two pseudonymous patristic texts, supposedly from St. Cyprian and St. Augustine.

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