[Cronos]

So, do you not use the term "Doctor"? What about those who get their Ph.D's in theology? Or the Rev. Dr. etc.?

Acts 7:2 has Stephen use the honorific "father" as a term of respect for his elders: "2To this he replied: "Brothers and fathers, listen to me!"

You have 1 John 2:13 " 13I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning."

[roamer_1]

So, do you not use the term "Doctor"? What about those who get their Ph.D's in theology? Or the Rev. Dr. etc.?

What is it with this incessant inability to understand the difference between the common sense of a word, and it's use in veneration?

As to a doctor, as in physician, yes, I use the term all the time.

But wrt "doctor of the church"... It has no bearing, nor does it garner any respect from me. Men are men. I have heard great wisdom in a roadside tent. It is the Spirit within them that is the "Doctor of the Church," not some foolish degree, or the accolade of mortals.