What's the difference between patristics and patrology?

Patristics


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  • (n.) That departnent of historical theology which treats of the lives and doctrines of the Fathers of the church.

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  • (1) The results were analyzed by means of patristic matrices with accompanying phylogenetic tree analysis that marks the first occasion that such analysis has been used for a behavioral trait.

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