Patristics

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Noun
  1. 1
    The study of the works of the early Christian Church Fathers. uncountable
  2. 2
    the study of the lives, writings, and doctrines of the Church Fathers wordnet
  3. 3
    the writings of the early Church Fathers wordnet

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patrology

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin patristica, from Latin pater (“father”).

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