"Consentient" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... between individual opinion and the collective voice of the Church, was far better understood anciently than at present. The interpretation of a Council, especially if oecumenical, was accounted decisive. Even the generally consentient voice of Doctors and Fathers, as far as it could be ascertained, was held to be of the same authoritative kind. An interesting illustration occurs. Than Eusebius, Bishop of Csarea, few Fathers of the fourth century were ...
— Inspiration and Interpretation - Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford • John Burgon
... be true which the whole Church throughout the world confesses; antiquity, if we in nowise depart from those interpretations which it is manifest were notoriously held by our holy ancestors and fathers; consent in like manner, if in antiquity itself we adhere to the consentient definitions and determinations of all, or at least almost all, priests ...
— A Source Book for Ancient Church History • Joseph Cullen Ayer, Jr., Ph.D. |
