Sentence examples for ecclesiastical writers from inspiring English sources

He also edited the works of many ecclesiastical writers.

Hostile ecclesiastical writers argued that Revelation could not have been written by the author who wrote the Gospel, because the language and conception of eschatology of the two works are profoundly different.

Catholic, (from Greek katholikos, "universal"), the characteristic that, according to ecclesiastical writers since the 2nd century, distinguished the Christian Church at large from local communities or from heretical and schismatic sects.

Whereas almost every prominent Christian writer of the 1st century posited a literal millennialism, by late in the 2nd century ecclesiastical writers had begun an assault on millenarian texts (especially the Revelation to John, the only New Testament text to explicitly address an earthly kingdom).

Their ritual sacrifice excluded them from certain parts of the Christian community (ecclesiastical writers tended to ignore them, for example ) but these people nonetheless believed themselves to be Christian and were recognized by others as Christians.

The word alphabet, from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet alpha and beta was first used, in its Latin form, alphabetum, by Tertullian (2nd 3rd century ce), a Latin ecclesiastical writer and church father, and by St. Jerome.

SARAH LAMMERT Boston, April 27, 2011 The writer is an ecclesiastical endorser for military chaplains and director of ministries and faith development for the Unitarian Universalist Association.

Among the most prominent of the Nonjurors were: the archbishop of Canterbury, William Sancroft; the saintly hymn writer Thomas Ken; the ecclesiastical polemicist Jeremy Collier; the historian Henry Dodwell and Henry Hydee, 2nd earl of Clarendon.

Besides his ecclesiastical career, Tatwine was a writer, and riddles he composed survive.

The papal letter to Honorius is given in the Ecclesiastical History of the medieval writer Bede.

The writer picked up data while he… A casual about ecclesiastical names in NYC.