Tertullian in a sentence

See Tertullian's Apologetics, 49.4 for Tertullian's condemnation of officials who sought their own "glory" by sponsoring the martyrdom of Christians.

Tertullian's intended readership was more likely to have been Christians whose faith was reinforced by Tertullian's defenses of faith against rationalizations.

During the Christian era, North Africa produced some of the great intellectual figures of the early church, including Tertullian, Saint Cyprian, and Saint Augustine.

Accordingly the Christian Fathers had to defend themselves, as early as the second century, against the charge of being worshipers of the cross, as may be learned from Tertullian, "Apologia," xii., xvii., and Minucius Felix, "Octavius," xxix.

According to Tertullian (in The Prescription of Heretics) John was banished (presumably to Patmos) after being plunged into boiling oil in Rome and suffering nothing from it.

Adv. Prax. 19) The question whether the Son was coeternal with the Father Tertullian does not set forth in full clarity; and though he did not fully state the doctrine of the immanence of the Trinity, he went a long distance in the way of approach to it.

Although Tertullian used a knowledge of Roman law in his writings, his legal knowledge does not demonstrably exceed that of what could be expected from a sufficient Roman education.

Another system was to date from the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, which as early as Hippolytus and Tertullian was believed to have occurred in the consulate of the Gemini (AD 29), which appears in some medieval manuscripts.

Baker notes the uncanny way that both authors imply an ironic "justification by ownership" over the subject of sacrificing children—Tertullian while attacking pagan parents, and Swift while attacking the English mistreatment of the Irish poor.

Bitel 2008, p. 21 One reason for Tertullian’s disdain for marriage was his belief about the transformation that awaited a married couple.

By Tertullian's time, Mercury's identification with Hermes psychopompos (who led souls to the underworld) was well established.

Christian writer Tertullian (c. 155–230) was the first to call Nero the first persecutor of Christians.

Cyprian, Tertullian's North African compatriot, though nowhere mentioning his name, was well read in his writings, according to Cyprian's secretary in a letter to Jerome.

Earlier still, in the 3rd century, Tertullian used "vicar of Christ" to refer to the Holy Spirit citation citation sent by Jesus.

Futrell is citing Tertullian's De Speculates, 22. Nevertheless, there is evidence of informal if not entirely lawful practices to the contrary.

However, Tertullian was not averse to using the technical methods of Stoicism to discuss a problem (De anima).

In discussing whether sins committed subsequent to baptism may be forgiven, Tertullian calls baptism and penance "two planks" on which the sinner may be saved from shipwreck—language which he gave to the Church (De penitentia, xii).

It is easy to suppose Tertullian and Hippolytus misrepresented the opinions of their opponents.

Liber de praescriptione haereticorum, circa 208 A.D. Hence, apparently the church in Smyrna was one of only two that Tertullian felt could have had some type of apostolic succession.

Like Ireneaus, Tertullian describes how Christ's Virgin birth parallels Adam's creation from virgin earth.