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    The Cappadocian Fathers, also traditionally known as the Three Cappadocians, were a trio of Byzantine Christian prelates, theologians and monks who helped...
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    The Church Fathers, Early Church Fathers, Christian Fathers, or Fathers of the Church were ancient and influential Christian theologians and writers who...
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  • refused to talk about substance (the Homoians).[citation needed] The Cappadocian fathers were the first pro-Nicenes to believe in three hypostases. For example...
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    later Cappadocian Fathers.) The concept of the Trinity can be seen as developing significantly during the first four centuries by the Church Fathers in reaction...
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    Greek Patristic tradition, at least since the Cappadocian Fathers identified God with the person of the Father, whereas, Augustine seems to identify him with...
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  • The Cappadocian Greeks (Greek: Έλληνες Καππαδόκες; Turkish: Kapadokyalı Rumlar), or simply Cappadocians, are an ethnic Greek community native to the geographical...
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    History portal Anchorite Cappadocian Fathers Christian monasticism before 451 Christian contemplation § Theoria Church Fathers Coptic monasticism Chronology...
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  • Trinity and the final Trinitarian terminology by the teachings of the Cappadocian Fathers; The addition of the Filioque to the Nicene Creed, as accepted by...
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    Arsenios the Cappadocian (Greek: Ὅσιος Ἀρσένιος ὁ Καππαδόκης; 1840 – November 10, 1924), born in Kephalochori, Cappadocia (Greek: Κεφαλοχώρι) was a Greek...
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    Alexandria and the Cappadocian Fathers (Basil of Caesarea, Gregory Nazianzus, Peter of Sebaste and Gregory of Nyssa. The Cappadocians promoted early Christian...
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  • work of the Cappadocian Fathers. They consider God to be a triune entity, called the Trinity, comprising three "persons", God the Father, God the Son...
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  • split into two tables. Ante-Nicene Fathers (book) Apostolic Fathers Cappadocian Fathers Church Fathers Desert Fathers Doctors of the Church List of early...
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    groups in the Mediterranean world around the second century, when the Fathers of the early Church denounced them as heresy. Efforts to destroy these...
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  • founders of Neoplatonism. His work, through Augustine of Hippo, the Cappadocian Fathers, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and several subsequent Christian...
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    Gregory of Nazianzus (category Cappadocian Greeks)
    Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa, he is known as one of the Cappadocian Fathers. Gregory of Nazianzus is a saint in both Eastern and Western Christianity...
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    According to Herodotus, in the time of the Ionian Revolt (499 BC), the Cappadocians were reported as occupying a region from Mount Taurus to the vicinity...
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    interpretation of Moses was followed by Clement of Alexandria, Origen, the Cappadocian Fathers, Pseudo-Dionysius, and Maximus the Confessor. God's appearance to...
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  • a dialect of the Greek language, formerly spoken in Cappadocia Cappadocian Fathers, three prominent ancient Christian writers from Cappadocia: Basil...
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    to the East also crossed the city. Basil of Caesarea, one of the Cappadocian Fathers, established a large monastic complex, the Basileiad, in Caesarea...
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    the second son of weaver Julius Kolbe and midwife Maria Dąbrowska. His father was an ethnic German, and his mother was Polish. He had four brothers, two...
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  • sister of Basil the Great as well. Gregory of Nyssa—unlike the other Cappadocian Fathers—was married, according to his own testimony in his work On Virginity...
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    Gregory of Nyssa (category Cappadocian Greeks)
    their friend Gregory of Nazianzus are collectively known as the Cappadocian Fathers. Gregory lacked the administrative ability of his brother Basil or...
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  • derivation" from the Father, and therefore was co-eternal with him, and equal to God in all aspects. In a similar vein the Cappadocian Fathers argued that the...
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    language, and translated many works into Latin, affording access to the Cappadocian Fathers and the Greek theological tradition, previously almost unknown in...
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  • Councils Great church ante-Nicene period Church Fathers Apostolic Fathers Cappadocian Fathers Desert Fathers Desert Mothers Augustine Nicaea Ephesus Chalcedon...
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    work there. M. Limberis, Vasiliki (2011). Architects of Piety: The Cappadocian Fathers and the Cult of the Martyrs. Oxford University Press. p. 164. ISBN 9780190208684...
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    Basil of Caesarea (category Cappadocian Greeks)
    friend Gregory of Nazianzus, are collectively referred to as the Cappadocian Fathers. The Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches have given...
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    killed fighting against Margaret's uncles at the Battle of Barnet. Her father, already Duke of Clarence, was then created Earl of Salisbury and of Warwick...
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    traditional story, Lucy was born to rich and noble parents in 283. Her father was of Roman origin, but died when she was five years old, leaving Lucy...
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    Meletius patriarch of Antioch, and Gregory of Nazianzus, one of the Cappadocian Fathers from Cappadocia (today in Turkey), patriarch of Constantinople. Theodosius...
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