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Already in Ad Martyras, IV, 3, Tertullian pressed the women to accept the torment with serenity, and to even seek it to give honor to their sex: ut uos quoque, benedictae, sexui uestro respondeatis. A husband, children, domestic routine, the desire to be beautiful and admired are so many retinacula which prevent her from flying to where duty calls.
- The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. Tertullian. Blood, Church Today, Christianity.
- You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest. Tertullian.
- We worship unity in trinity, and trinity in unity; neither confounding the person nor dividing the substance. There is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost; but the Godhead of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one; the glory equal, the majesty co-eternal.
- Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings travellers safely home, calms the waves, confounds robbers, feeds the poor, overrules the rich, lifts up the fallen, supports those who are falling, sustains those who stand firm.
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This triad of biblical passages, 1 Cor 14:34-35; 1 Tim 2:11-15; Gen 3:16, is the key to understanding the position of the early Church regarding ministry for women. Though Tertullian quotes only the first in Virg. vel. 9.1, he is aware of all three.
Feb 9, 2011 · In his treatise, On the Dress of Women, Tertullian says, “You are the Devil’s gateway; you are the unsealer of that tree; you are the first foresaker of the divine law; you are the one who persuaded him whom the Devil was not brave enough to approach; you so lightly crushed the image of God, the man Adam.”. In Tertullian’s last line, he ...
women teaching or discussing and for that matter performing exorcisms as well. On Women in Ecclesiastic Roles In the early Christian churches, women were relegated to duties in lower positions than men. There is evidence which suggests that women in certain communities were permitted to serve as presbyters and some even served at the rank of ...
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41 quotes from Tertullian: 'How beautiful, then, the marriage of two Christians, two who are one in home, one in desire, one in the way of life they follow, one in the religion they practice . . . Nothing divides them either in flesh or in spirit . . . They pray together, they worship together, they fast together; instructing one another ...
The positive stance of this author to women’s leadership within the Christian congregations is mirrored, in some ways, in contemporary movements in Asia Minor specifically. The so called Phrygian movement (aka Montanism) was characterized by a heavy emphasis on prophetic authority, and its main charismatic leaders were two women prophetesses ...
