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2 days ago · has lifted up upon his shoulder his own dominion and majesty, which is the cross, so that henceforth, as the previous prophecy stated, he reigned as Lord from the tree. —Tertullian, Against Marcion 3.19.1–3, SC 399:164–66, in Isaiah, ed. Robert Louis Wilken, 128; cited in Daniel J. Treier, Lord Jesus Christ, 133. First Name *.
3 days ago · Tertullian affirmed that the Son not only shared the same mind with the Father, but because he came forth from the Father, he was also of the same substantia (underlying being) even if the nature of that oneness had not been fully revealed. Though Tertullian did not directly respond to Jewish monotheistic criticisms of Christian belief about ...
2 days ago · Early Christians didn’t take these accusations lying down—they actively discipled their people and defended the faith. Early Christian texts, such as Justin Martyr’s First Apology or Tertullian’s Apology, give more evidence of the church’s active engagement with political figures and the public square.
2 days ago · The second-century Latin theologian Tertullian declared that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. This remains true to our day, as witnessed most poignantly by the martyrdom of bishops, priests and lay people during the Communist era, in Russia, Romania and elsewhere, and in the ongoing persecution of Christians at the hands of ...
1 day ago · Based on academic disputations at Leiden, the Synopsis represents a full, yet streamlined, summary of theology as it was understood in the Netherlands following the Synod of Dort (1618–1619). The Synopsis was meant to be an academic textbook that offered a theological and philosophical exposition of the orthodox (“purer”) Reformed faith.
2 days ago · Don’t expect to see quotes from Tertullian’s Apology on a throw pillow or a swoopy-fonted Hobby Lobby kitchen sign. But when it comes to an encounter with a secular apologist or a puritanical spitfire coming after Christianity with all the grace of a Pharisee, look no further than Tertullian for polemical fury or a text that reads like a ...
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5 days ago · One of the first Christian authors to object was Tertullian, a Roman born around AD160. Other patristics – “fathers” of the early church – were persuaded by his theory that women who wore makeup...