Tertullian (/tərˈtʌliən/; Latin: Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus; c. 155 – c. 220 AD) was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the...
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Pseudo-Tertullian is the scholarly name for the unknown author of Adversus Omnes Haereses, an appendix to the work De praescriptionem haereticorum of Tertullian...
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absurd", originally misattributed to Tertullian in his De Carne Christi. It is believed to be a paraphrasing of Tertullian's "prorsus credibile est, quia ineptum...
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Marcionism through what later critics, especially Tertullian, said concerning Marcion. According to Tertullian and other writers of early proto-orthodox Christianity...
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themselves from the wider Christian Church, and the Christian theologian Tertullian even recorded an event where a bishop almost declared Montanism as orthodox...
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A Modest Proposal (section Tertullian's Apology)
Rhetoric, p. 139 Johnson, Tertullian and A Modest Proposal, p. 563 Johnson, Tertullian and A Modest Proposal, p. 562 Baker, Tertullian and Swift's A Modest...
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Tertullian Pyne was an Anglican priest in England during the 16th century. Pyne was born in Devon and educated at St John's College, Oxford. He held the...
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contrary to the seven heavenly virtues. This classification originated with Tertullian and continued with Evagrius Ponticus. The seven deadly sins are discussed...
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Tertullian rejected the accusation of Christians being "adorers of the gibbet" (crucis religiosi). In his book De Corona, written in 204, Tertullian tells...
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and that the fallen angels were the source of the black arts (53.4). Tertullian (155 AD – 222 AD), the first author writing in Latin, names and cites...
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Suetonius on Christians (section Tertullian)
specific passage in Suetonius' Lives as Tertullian's source. Other authors explicitly add that Tertullian's words are a reference to the passage in Suetonius'...
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Romans, but was favoured by ordinary people, philosophers, and pedagogues. Tertullian thought it the most appropriate garment for philosophers and Christians...
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an explicit reference to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, in Tertullian. In the following century, the word was in general use. It is found in...
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evidently by Tertullian himself, and gave an explanation or recantation in writing, the "carnal" as he affects to call them, which, when Tertullian wrote several...
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Fideism (section Tertullian)
Subjectivism Tertullian taught fideistic concepts such as the later philosophers William of Ockham and Søren Kierkegaard. Tertullian's De Carne Christi...
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as evil. The sect was relatively small.[vague] They were mentioned by Tertullian and Irenaeus as existing in the eastern Roman Empire during the 2nd century...
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which feats of human power are idolised at the expense of divine worship. Tertullian condemns the athletic performances of his day, insisting "the entire apparatus...
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Church Fathers (section Tertullian)
is no definitive list.[better source needed] Some, such as Origen and Tertullian, made major contributions to the development of later Christian theology...
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Ophites (section Pseudo-Tertullian)
("arrangement"). It is now thought that later accounts of these "Ophites" by Pseudo-Tertullian, Philastrius and Epiphanius of Salamis are all dependent on the lost Syntagma...
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Ezekiel's cherub in Eden (section Tertullian)
for the temple complex of Melkart with its renowned garden enclosure. Tertullian in Against Marcion 2:10 linked the reference to the fall of Satan. This...
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Apologeticus (category Works by Tertullian)
a text attributed to Tertullian according to Christian tradition, consisting of apologetic and polemic. In this work Tertullian defends Christianity,...
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which I ascribe to the Son." – Tertullian, Against Praxeas 15 Tertullian. "Chapter XIV". Against Marcion, Book III. Tertullian. "Chapter VI". Against Marcion...
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2024. Retrieved 17 August 2012. "Cyril of Jerusalem, Lecture XVIII, 26". Tertullian.org. 6 August 2004. Archived from the original on 8 June 2023. Retrieved...
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Evangelica (Preparation for the Gospel). Tr. E.H. Gifford (1903) – Book 6". Tertullian.org. Retrieved 2013-09-25. John Nery (11 December 2006). "The Jesuits'...
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Christianity: Its Founder, Tertullian - Christian Classics Ethereal Library". www.ccel.org. "ANF04. Fathers of the Third Century: Tertullian, Part Fourth; Minucius...
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fellow-soldier. — Eusebius of Caesarea, Church History, Book III, Chapter 4:9-10 Tertullian (c. 155 – c. 220 AD) wrote in his work "The Prescription Against Heretics"...
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latina, vol. 2, cols. 500 and 514 "Tertullian : Ernest Evans, Adversus Marcionem. Book 5 (English)". www.tertullian.org. Archived from the original on...
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Testament books. Early Church Fathers such as Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, and Tertullian denounced Marcion as a heretic or antichrist, and he was excommunicated...
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praescriptionem haereticorum by Tertullian, who lived c. 160–c. 225. Most scholars believe that the appendix is not by Tertullian but was added later; it is...
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even Tertullian's version of events" and that its "combination of legal inconsistency would have inspired a couple of pages of sarcasm from Tertullian."...
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