Patristic used in a sentence

Patristic in a sentence as an adjective

I’m in a the nowadays obscure field of patristic theology and I can’t believe how much stuff I can find on LibGen, often things that even highly specialized research libraries like Harvard don’t have. The hours that LibGen saved me in gathering all the sources for my research must be in the hundreds.

“Bede made sophisticated use of the Roman, biblical, and patristic strands of the topos in his account of the various conversions and reconversions of peoples and regions within ‘the multitude of isles’.” Awareness of the remoteness of Britain was likely therefore closely related to British Christian identity.