Definition von church father im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
(Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Lation Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom
Any of the authoritative early writers in the Christian church who formulated doctrines and codified religious observances
Fathers of the Church one of the several important teachers of the early Christian church whose writings are used to answer any difficult points of faith or practice