BH

Is it true that church historians from ancient times often have a certain church father living at different time periods?

Alf

Care to tell us which person that would be?

The closest I can come to mind is the gospel authors. If they really were John etc then John would probably be the oldest man living on earth at the time of him writing the gospel as his gospel was written very late 1st century or early 2nd century and most likely the latter.

The gospel of Luke appears to have been written no earlier than around 90 AD and John is later than Luke. However, these gospel writers was hardly counted among the church fathers were they?

Alf

Roger Pearse

This is very much too vague, you know, for any of us to do much with it. Indeed the question is very ambiguous. Do you mean that different writers assign the same father to different periods? No-one, even today, has any certain idea of when Commodian wrote -- c.2-c.6. But then this is because no-one mentions him and his poems are pretty much timeless.

Perhaps you should give us all the context of the argument that you are having in another forum -- if that is how this arises? -- and let us see if that gives us more information.

All the best,

Roger Pearse