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Jul 14, 2001 · The occasion of sin in man is attributed variously to impatience, to concupiscence, and to gluttony, but in none of these cases is it emphasized, and Tertullian's strong adherence to the purity of the flesh in itself precludes the notion that sin originated in the flesh.
Oct 4, 2016 · Blog. Christian Thinkers 101: A Crash Course on Tertullian. by Kenneth Samples. October 4, 2016. Though he died almost 18 centuries ago, Tertullian is often quoted today in theological and apologetics circles. But what did this man believe, and what did he ultimately contribute to historic Christianity?
Tertullian was an advocate of discipline and an austere code of practise, and like many of the African fathers, one of the leading representatives of the rigorist element in the early Church. His writings on public amusements, the veiling of virgins, the conduct of women, and the like, reflect these opinions.
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Jul 17, 2020 · Writings of Tertullian: Bait, Blood, and Seed. Thirty-one of Tertullian's writings remain, touching on all areas of human life. His works include apologetic treatises, controversial attacks on heresies, and moral writings. His Apology defending the Christian faith contains one of the earliest and most eloquent pleas for religious liberty.
Besides that sacrament he mentions, with an expression of unwillingness, a “last hope”, a second plank of salvation, after which there is no other. This is the severe remedy of exomologesis, confession, involving a long penance in sackcloth and ashes for the remission of post-baptismal sin.
On Repentance — Tertullian. [8457] For what I say is this, that the repentance which, being shown us and commanded us through God's grace, recalls us to grace [8458] with the Lord, when once learned and undertaken by us ought never afterward to be cancelled by repetition of sin.
May 12, 2000 · In chapter 8, O. treats Tertullian’s anthropology (especially as found in the treatise De anima), pointing out that Tertullian was the first to argue for the origin of sin in a soul that is both responsible and corrupt. Here Tertullian was moving toward a doctrine of original sin.
