Church Father

Church Father’s quotations for the final examination

By: Hilarius Murmu OMI (03-06-2013 Monday)

DIDACHE is Like a Manuel 1^st part is moral teaching.

St. Ignatius of Antioch: ( ca (circa-> (AvbygvwbK) A.D. 110) “How the church is organized. He emphasize on important and greatest church. He wrote 7 letters to different churches.

1. The Martyrdom of St. Polycarp: (A. D. 155/157)

& [9, 3] {79a} Page-31;  Proconsul (Army administrator) said to St. Polycarp-  “Take the oath and I will release you; revile Christ,” St. Polycarp answered: “Eighty-six years I have served Him, and He has never done me wrong. How, then, should I be able to blaspheme my King who has saved me?”

& [14, 3] {80} Page-31; (About to die in martyrdom, Polycarp looked up to heaven and prayed: “………In this way and for all things I do praise you, I do bless you, I do glorify you through the eternal and heavenly High Priest, Jesus Christ, your beloved Child: through whom be glory to you with Him and with the Holy Spirit, both now and through ages yet to come. Amen.”

& [6, 1] {97a} Page-41; What the soul is in the body, that the Christians are in the world.

& [7, 2] {98} Page-41; “He sent Him for saving and persuading, but not for compelling. Compulsion, you see, is not an attribute of God.”

2. St. Justin the Martyr: (A.D. 100/110-ca. A.D. 165)

& [6] {113} Page-51; Father of righteousness and temperance, Son and the Holy Spirit (prophetic Spirit). This he chooses from Stoic philosopher: (i) Righteousness: Philosophical Virtue and (ii) Temperance: Biblical virtue.

& [65] {128} Page-55; Illumination: receiving the life of Baptism.

3. St. Irenaeus [ca. A. D. 140-ca. A. D. 202]

& 2^nd para: Page-84; Irenaeus is certainly the most important theologian of the second century; and the most prominent of his writings is the Detection and Overthrow of the Gnosis Falsely So-called, Or Against heresies (inter A. D. 180/199).

& BOOKS: 1^st:  Dualism: question: How do you get salvation? Ans; by knowing saviour and revealed to you. 2^nd: Reputation by reason Gnostic thinking is reason call to submit the rule of faith. Rule of faith is agreement of Tradition. 3^rd : Reputation to the Tradition teaching of the Apostles. 4^th : Reputation to the word of the Lord. 5^th : Reputation by the letter of the Apostles. Doctrine of the resurrection of the Flesh. The Old Testament is the salvation History of the Lord. 

& [4, 11, 2] {229} Page-94; in the 4^th book: “God, indeed creates well; and man is well-created.”

& [4, 14, 11] {231} Page-95; God created because he wants to share what he has. God does not need our service but to follow him, and serve him. We need to be his followers.