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Feb 11, 2024 · Feb 11, 2024 • By Ryan Watson, MA History, BA History. Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, commonly known as Tertullian, was a Christian apologist and author from Carthage. He is known for his extensive writings, and is the first known theologian to use the term “Trinity.”. He lived 155-220 CE, and was an early Christian author and ...
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Introduction: The literature of the subject. 9-12. Chapter 1: The place of Tertullian in the history of theology. The position of Christian doctrine----The influence of Gnosticism----Irenaeus and the Rule of Truth----The lex fidei: its threefold statement----The canon of Scripture----The services of Tertullian in relation thereto----Quotation ...
Jul 14, 2001 · The world was created by God. It was created 'good,' and for man's good, that he might, through the goodness of creation, learn to know the goodness of God. It was a part of the divine plan to endow |p148 both man and the devil with freedom of the will. To man endowed with free will was given a law to obey.
Tertullian. TERTULLIAN. ON BAPTISM. [TRANSLATED BY THE REV. S. THELWALL.] CHAP. I.--INTRODUCTION. ORIGIN OF THE. TREATISE. HAPPY iS our sacrament Of water, in that, by washing away the sins of our early blindness, we are set free and admitted into eternal life! A treatise on this matter will not be superfluous; instructing not only such as are ...
Jul 14, 2001 · Death is the separation of the soul from the body, the complete separation. Tertullian discourses at great length on the whole subject of sleep and dreams, in order to establish his contention that the soul never leaves the body, except at death. The conclusion to which he comes is that sleep is a rest for the body only, while the soul remains ...
Tertullian was born around A.D. 150 in the city of Carthage in North Africa. Both of his parents were pagan, and his father was a centurion. Tertullian received a thorough education in the knowledge of the Romans and the Greeks, and he apparently practiced law before his conversion. His writings indicate that he did not become a Christian until ...
