Tertullian

Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, anglicized as Tertullian, (ca. 155–230) was a church leader and prolific author during the early years of Christianity. He was born, lived, and died in Carthage, in what is today Tunisia. Tertullian denounced Christian doctrines he considered heretical, but later in life adopted views that came to be regarded as heretical themselves. He was the first great writer of Latin Christianity, thus sometimes known as the "father of the Latin Church". He introduced the term Trinity ...

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Tertullian: Encyclopedia II - Tertullian - Theology Tertullian - General character. Though thoroughly conversant with the Greek theology, Tertullian was independent of its metaphysical speculation. He had learned from the Greek apologies, and forms a direct contrast to Origen. Origen pushed his idealism in the direction of Gnostic spiritualism. Tertullian, the prince of realists and practical theologian, carried his realism to the verge of materialism. This is evident from his ascription to God of corporeity and his acceptance of the traducian theory of the origin ...

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Fideism - Theologies opposed to fideism

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Tertullian: Encyclopedia - Cainites

The Cainites were a Gnostic and Antinomian sect who were known to worship Cain as the first victim of the Demiurge Jehovah, the Old Testament God, who was identified by many groups of gnostics as evil. The sect following was relatively small. They were mentioned by Tertullian and Irenaeus as existing in the eastern Roman Empire during the 2nd century. Cainites - Source texts on the Cainites. Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.31.1-2 Epiphanius of Salamis, Panarion 38 ...

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Tertullian: Encyclopedia - Apelles gnostic

Little is known about Apelles (mid-2nd century). He was a disciple of Marcion, probably at Rome, but left (or was expelled from) the Marcionite society. Tertullian tells us (De praescriptione haereticorum 30) that this was because he had become intimate with a woman named Philumena who claimed to be possessed by an angel, who gave her 'revelations' which Apelles read out in public. He then went to Alexandria, where he developed his doctrine, a modified Marcionism, which (according to Tertullian) admitted that Christ possessed true human flesh but continued to den ...

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160 - Events. 160 - Births. Tertullian, Christian writer (possible date) Guan Yu, one of the Five Tiger Generals of the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history (possible date). 160 - Deaths. Suetonius, Roman historian Category: 160 ...

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240 - Events. Maharaja Sri-Gupta, becomes Emperor of Gupta The revolt of Sabinianus in Africa is settled down 240 - Births. Sporus of Nicaea, Greek mathematician and astronomer (approximate date) Cao Mao, emperor of the Kingdom of Wei (approximate date) 240 - Deaths. Ammonius Saccas, Neoplatonic philosopher (approximate date) Tertullian, Christian writer (approximate date) ...

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Tertullian: Encyclopedia - The Shepherd of Hermas

The Shepherd of Hermas (sometimes just called The Shepherd) is a Christian work of the second century, considered a valuable book by many Christians, and occasionally considered canonical by some of the early Church fathers. The Shepherd had great authority in the 2nd and 3rd centuries, was cited as Scripture by Irenaeus and Tertullian and was bound with the New Testament in the Codex Sinaiticus, and was listed between the Acts of the Apostles and the Acts of Paul in the stichometrical list of the Including:

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Tertullian: Encyclopedia - Apologeticus

Apologeticus is Tertullian's most famous works, consisting of apologetic and polemic, which was written in Carthage in the year 197 AD, during the reign of Septimius Severus. In this work he defends Christianity, demanding legal toleration and that Christians be treated as all other sects of the Roman Empire. It is in this treatise that one finds the phrase: "the blood of the martyrs is the seed of Christianity." Apologeticus is addressed to the rulers of the country and other places, and is bears resemblance thus to the Greek ...

Tertullian: Encyclopedia - Circumcellions

The Circumcellions, also known as the "agonistici", were a donatist sect in North Africa that overvalued martyrdom and had a special devotion for the martyrs, rendering honors to their graves. The Circumcellions had come to regard martyrdom as the true Christian virtue (as Church Father Tertullian said, a martyr's death day was actually his birthday), and thus came to disregard chastity, sobriety, humility, charity, and other virtues. Instead, they focused on br ...

Tertullian: Encyclopedia - Valentinius

Valentinius, more usually called Valentinus (c. 100 - c. 153), was the best known and for a time most successful Christian Gnostic theologian. He founded his school in Rome. Tertullian in Adversus Valentinianos iv, said he was a candidate for bishop of Rome (the date would be about 143) and that he lost the election by a narrow margin. Tertullian also said he was declared heretical after his death, in 175. "Valentinus has disappeared, yet these are Valentinians who derive from Valentinus. At Antioch alone to this day Axi ...

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222 - Events. Pope Urban I succeeds Pope Callixtus I Roman Emperor Alexander Severus succeeds Heliogabalus Kingdom of Wu is established in China Sun Quan defeats Liu Bei at the Battle of Yi Ling 222 - Deaths. March 11 - Roman Emperor Elagabalus murdered Tertullian, theologian Pope Callixtus I Claudius Aelianus, teacher and rhetorician Ma Liang, officer of Liu Bei Ma Chao, officer of Liu B ...

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Tertullian: Encyclopedia - Marcionism

Marcionism is the dualist belief system that originates in the teachings of Marcion of Sinope at Rome around the year 144 CE (115 years and 6 months from the Crucifixion, according to Tertullian's reckoning in Adversus Marcionem, xv). Marcionism reflects a different understanding of the roots of Christian belief than that commonly held today. To the early church, the source of the most persistent persecution of Christians was from Judaism,[1] and they understood that the Old Testament's theology of wrath was different from th ...

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Tertullian: Encyclopedia - Acts of Paul and Thecla

The Acts of Paul and Thecla (Acta Pauli et Theclae) is an apocryphal story of St Paul's influence on a young virgin named Thecla. It is one of the writings of the New Testament Apocrypha. It was probably written in the second century. The discovery of a Coptic text of the Acts of Paul containing the Thecla narrative suggests that it may have been part of that larger work. If so, it is attested as early as Tertullian (Bapt. 17:5), who states that the Acts were written in honor of St Paul, by a ...

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Tertullian: Encyclopedia II - Fideism - Theologies opposed to fideism

Fideism - Fideism rejected by the Roman Catholic Church. Some theologies, however, strongly reject fideism. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, representing Roman Catholicism's great regard for Thomism, the teachings of St Thomas Aquinas, affirms that it is a doctrine of Roman Catholicism that God's existence can indeed be demonstrated by reason. Aquinas's rationalism has deep roots in Western Christianity; it goes back to St Augustine's observation that the role of reason was to explain faith more fully ...

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