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14 Cards in this Set
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Clement of Rome
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earliest Christian writer apart form NT: Wrote on church life and order
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Ignatius of Antioch
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Wrote on church leadership and against Docetism
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Justin Martyr
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Defended Christian faith against pagans and Jews. Dealt with interpretation of scripture
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Irenaeus
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Wrote on fundamental Christian doctrines, the use of scripture and against Gnostics.
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Tertullian
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Wrote on orthodox beliefs against heresy, moral behavior and attitude to culture
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Origen
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Wrote on biblical scholarship, systematic theology, relation to philosophy
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Cyprian
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Wrote on the unity of the Church, practical church matters, pastoral zeal
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Athanasius
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Defined trinity and divinity of Christ
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Ambrose
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Preaching, Church leadership, matters of Christian practice
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Jerome
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Biblical scholarship., relation to pagan learning
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Augustine
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Theolgoy, esp on salvation, evil, grace, the church
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Basil the Great
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Wrote against Arianism, on community and love in monasticism, the trinity
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John Chrysostom
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Preaching, christian morality
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Cyril of Alexandria
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Wrote against Nestorius, preserving Christ's person as a living unity.
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