Henry Barclay Swete

Name: 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 10 — Fathers of the Church
Author: Henry Barclay Swete

1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 10… (1911)

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“1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 10 — Fathers of the Church”, published in 1911, is a work by Henry Barclay Swete. It explores elements such as patrologies, writers and Christian.

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Henry Barclay Swete, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 10… (1911)

“ In these products of the 2nd and 3rd centuries there is much which in its own way was not surpassed by any of the later patristic writings. Yet the post-Nicene literature, considered as literature, reaches a far higher level. Both in East and West, the 4th and 5th centuries form the golden age of dogmatic theology, of homiletic preaching, of exposition, of letter-writing, of Church history, of religious poetry. ”

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Henry Barclay Swete, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 10… (1911)

“ All patristic students now recognize the great inequality of these authors, and admit that they are not free from the faults of their times; it is not denied that much of their exegesis is untenable, or that their logic is often feeble and their rhetoric offensive to modern taste. But against these disadvantages may be set the unique services which the fathers still render to Christian scholars. Their works comprise the whole literature of our faith during the decisive centuries which followed the apostolic age. ”

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Henry Barclay Swete, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 10… (1911)

“ In the narrower sense thus indicated the “fathers” of the Church are the great bishops and other eminent Christian teachers of the earlier centuries, who were conspicuous for soundness of judgment and sanctity of life, and whose writings remained as a court of appeal for their successors. A list of fathers drawn up on this principle will begin with the Christian writers of the 1st century whose writings are not included in the New Testament: where it ought to end is a more difficult point to determine. ”

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Henry Barclay Swete, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 10… (1911)

“ The fathers of the first six or seven centuries, so far as they agree, may be fairly taken to represent the main stream of Christian tradition and belief during the period when the apostolic teaching took shape in the great creeds and dogmatic decisions of Christendom. ”

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Henry Barclay Swete, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 10… (1911)

“ For a discussion of the more important fathers the student is referred to the articles which deal with them separately. In this place it is enough to consider the general influence of the patristic writings upon Christian doctrine and biblical interpretation. Can any authority be claimed for their teaching or their exegesis, other than that which belongs to the best writers of every age. ”

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Henry Barclay Swete, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 10… (1911)

“ They are no longer used as an armoury from which opposite sides may draw effective weapons, offensive or defensive; nor on the other hand are they cast aside as the rubbish of an ignorant and superstitious age. ”

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Henry Barclay Swete, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 10… (1911)

“ The conversion of the empire gave the members of the Church leisure and opportunities for the cultivation of literary taste, and gradually drew the educated classes within the pale of the Christian society. Moreover, the great Christological controversies of the age tended to encourage in Christian writers and preachers an intellectual acuteness and an accuracy of thought and expression of which the earlier centuries had not felt the need.
The ante-Nicene period of patristic literature opens with the “apostolic fathers,” [5] i.e. ”

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Henry Barclay Swete, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 10… (1911)

“ The reader to whom the study is new will gain some idea of the bulk of the extant patristic literature, if we add that in Migne’s collection ninety-six large volumes are occupied with the Greek fathers from Clement of Rome to John of Damascus, and seventy-six with the Latin fathers from Tertullian to Gregory the Great. ”

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