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What is Church Doctor and Father of The Church?

What is Church Doctor and Father of The Church?

Posted May 19, 2022, 11:09 AM UTC

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CrusaderXIXMaronite Catholic ☨•

For Catholics:

Doctors of the Church: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Doctor-of-the-Church

Fathers of the Church: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Fathers

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InternetTraumatizedEastern Orthodox•

Church Fathers (and Mothers) are those Christians whose writings influenced all of Christianity.

Doctors of the Church are those Church Fathers who especially established the basis for Christian theology as we know it.

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vasjpan02•

Doctor derives from didactor or teacher. Fathers, as in patristics, are noted authors of early Christianity, the way Protestants read Charles Spurgeon, Dwight Moody, Jonathan Edwards, and so on.

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they write what?

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DraoidheachdJohannite•

Collectively they wrote some of the most important works in the history of Christianity, outside of scripture. There is so much to be gained by reading even a few of the Church Fathers. I'd recommend starting with Athansius' On The Incarnation

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shamanasIgtheist•

Anything from Church history to theology to polemic texts against 'heretics', Jewish people and other religions (e.g. Mandeanism).

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Zestyclose_Dinner105•

The fathers of the church were students of the apostles and students of students of the apostles and wrote very remarkable works in the first centuries of Christianity.

From them we know how the early church understood the bible and the many oral teachings that do not appear in them (John 21,25 And there are also many other things that Jesus did, that if they were written in detail, I think not even the world itself could contain the books that would be written).

They have also left detailed descriptions of how the sacraments were celebrated and understood at the time. https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/

The doctors of the church are men and women whose writings have left important teachings on how to live and understand the faith that make them worthy of that title.

Some were highly educated and intelligent scholars and others like Teresa of Lisieux who wrote about the path of spiritual childhood were simple souls but full of god.

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