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Patristic Schools

2 of 12 entries in Schools of Theology. Click any to see everything it connects to.

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Divinity Atlas. "Patristic Schools." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/theologicalschool/patristic-schools.

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Divinity Atlas. (n.d.). Patristic Schools. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/theologicalschool/patristic-schools

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@misc{divinityatlas-patristic-schools,
  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {Patristic Schools},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/theologicalschool/patristic-schools},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

The two great schools of early Christian biblical exegesis and Christology, Alexandrian and Antiochene, distinguished chiefly by their preference for allegorical or historical and literal interpretation of scripture, a difference that carried directly into how each read the union of divine and human in Christ.

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