: of or relating to the church fathers or their writings.

What does patristic philosophy mean?

: the philosophy developed by the fathers of the Christian church divided with reference to the Nicene Council in a.d. 325 into the ante-Nicene period during which it took the form of defenses of the Christian faith and the post-Nicene period up to St.

What is the study of patristics?

Patristics – the study of early Christianity in the period stretching from the end of the New Testament to the early Middle Ages – is a foundational discipline for theology. It studies the time in which Christianity as we now know it was formed.