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| | Tertullian |
 | | What gives Tertullian a place of lasting importance in the memory of the church is his teachings concerning the divinity of Christ and the doctrine of the Trinity. | | | He insisted that the Christian faith was unique among all the religions of the world because it had its origin in Scripture and Scripture was given by God. | | | Augustine says that Tertullian returned to the church before his death, but there is no evidence that this is true. |
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http://www.prca.org/books/portraits/tertull.htm
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| | Theology WebSite: Church History Study Helps: Tertullian |
| | According to Tertullian, the business of the church was to adhere unquestioningly to the "rule of faith" which was the one key to the Scriptures. | | | At the heart of Tertullian's theology lies his concern for the purity and holiness of the church, the practical authenticity of its life and teaching. | | | Tertullian bursts on the scene in North Africa in 197 with the appearance of his Apology. |
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http://www.theologywebsite.com/history/tertullian.shtml
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| | Tertullian : The Works of Tertullian |
| | Tertullian reminds him that the church is the body of Christ, not a conclave of bishops. | | | Praxeas wants to say that God the Father is the same as God the Son. | | | His most obviously Montanist works are those written after the New Prophecy was rejected by the church authorities, and are recognisable because of his attacks upon those responsible for quenching what he saw as a movement of the Spirit. |
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http://www.tertullian.org/works.htm
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| | Tertullian of Carthage, Early Church Father |
| | Tertullian is the church father who more than any other has been taken to epitomise the anti-intellectualism of the early Church. | | | This is not the first time that Tertullian’s orthodoxy has been attacked in order to undermine his credibility as a witness to the beliefs and practises of the church of his day. | | | Hanson, 274: “But though Tertullian is ready to acknowledge as legitimate the practice of allegorizing Scripture in the Church of his day, and will occasionally have recourse to it himself, he often rejects the practice and his writings leave a general impression that he was suspicious of allegory.” |
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http://phoenicia.org/tertullian2.html
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| | Glimpses bulletin #53: Tertullian |
| | Tertullian had a tenacious sense of the truth, and frequently railed against the church's conformity to the world and compromise with surrounding paganism. | | | Tertullian also saw, however, that the persecution of the church by the Roman authorities actually strengthened the Church of Christ: "It is bait that wins men for (our) school. | | | In keeping with his great sense of truth, Tertullian wrote several works attacking the heresies of his day, writing against Gnosticism and expounding orthodox Christian belief, especially the doctrine of the Trinity. |
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http://chi.gospelcom.net/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps053.shtml
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| | Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. III |
| | Tertullian displays, moreover, a knowledge of the proceedings of the Roman Church with respect to Marcion and Valentinus, who were once members of it, which could scarcely have been obtained by one who had not himself been numbered amongst its presbyters. | | | After remaining a presbyter of the church until he had attained the middle age of life, Tertullian was, by the envy and contumelious treatment of the Roman clergy, driven to embrace the opinions of Montanus, which he has mentioned in several of his works under the title of the New Prophecy.... | | | Be this as it may, it is manifest that Tertullian's Scripture passages never resemble the Hebrew, but in nearly every instance the Septuagint, whenever, as is most frequently the case, that version differs from the original. |
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http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-03/anf03-03.htm
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| | Tertullian |
| | He well understood the meaning of Jesus Christ's saying that He came not into the world to bring peace, but a sword: in a period when a lax spirit of conformity to the world had seized the churches he maintained the "vigor evangelicus" not merely against the Gnostics but against opportunists and a worldly-wise clergy. | | | Among all the fathers of the first three centuries Tertullian has given the most powerful expression to the terrible earnestness of the Gospel. | | | Augustine, again, stood on the shoulders of Tertullian and Cyprian; and these three North Africans are the fathers of the Western churches. |
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http://www.nndb.com/people/741/000071528
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| | Tertullian - Theopedia |
| | In his later years Tertullian became dissatisfied with the laxity of contemporary Christians and he joined the movement of Montanism (from the prophet Montanus), which demanded a strict moralism and preached the imminent end of the world. | | | It is a wonder that he was not killed by the heathens, or excommunicated by the Catholics." [Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, vol. | | | In other writings, he attacked the growing spiritual laxity he saw developing in the church. |
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http://www.theopedia.com/Tertullian
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| | Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.05.12 |
| | Tertullian held high expectations of ethical behaviour for himself as well as his fellow Christians: he believed that people guilty of grave sins such as murder, idolatry, apostasy, blasphemy, adultery and fornication were beyond the intercession of Christ and should be permanently excluded from the church (De pudicitia 19). | | | For example, Tertullian drew on the critique that philosophers do not live up to their beliefs, which had been stated or answered in Cicero, Seneca, Plutarch and some episodes related by Diogenes Laertius and is also found in the satirical tradition of Aristophanes, Horace, Petronius and especially Lucian of Samosata. | | | Like the Stoics, Tertullian believed that knowledge of God is inherent in humankind. |
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2000/2000-05-12.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Tertullian |
| | Tertullian declares that the Rule of Faith is unchangeable, but discipline is progressive. | | | The system of the Church of Carthage in Tertullian's time was therefore manifestly this: Those who committed grievous sins confessed them to the bishop, and he absolved them after due penance enjoined and performed, unless the case was in his judgment so grave that public penance was obligatory. | | | The argument of Tertullian must be considered in some detail, since his witness to the ancient system of penance is of first-rate importance. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14520c.htm
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| | The Works of the Early Church Fathers--Tertullian |
| | Tertullian was the first to speak of God as one substance (substantia) in three persons (personae), as a unity of substance but trinity of persons, although he had a decidedly subordinationist view of the relationship of Son to Father. | | | Tertullian had a tendency to set the believer's relationship to God on a legal footing: the Gospel was the new law. | | | Tertullian spoke regularly of Jesus Christ as two substances united but unmixed in one person, again, as with his statements on the Trinity, contributing to later creedal language. |
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http://www.segen.com/ecf/tertullian.html
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| | Tertullian |
| | Around 203 Tertullian became associated with the “Montanist” movement and separated himself from mainstream churches dominated by the bishop of Rome. | | | While students of the Bible will often encounter references to Tertullian, we may not know how to value such things if we don’t understand his place in church history. | | | Apostolic Succession - In his work entitled Prescriptions Against Heretics Tertullian makes it clear that he believed that churches established by the Apostles were the standard by which sound doctrine was to be determined (20,21). |
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http://home.att.net/~kmpope/Tertullian.html
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| | Western North African Christianity: Tertullian |
| | TertullianÕs moral rigorism led him out of the orthodox church towards the end of his life, and into the Montanist movement. | | | In both instances he held that he was merely delving into the meaning of the Bible, and not bringing in foreign pagan Greco-Roman elements. | | | That same moral rigor continued to shape the North African church after his death. |
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http://www.bethel.edu/~letnie/AfricanChristianity/WNATertullian.html
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| | CLASS 252 Tertullian Apolgeticus, outline and selections |
| | Tertullian gives an outline of Christ's life which shows that he fulfilled the prophecies made in scripture about the messiah and how the leaders of the Jews refused to accept this evidence even when it was supported by Christ's miracles. | | | Tertullian identifies Tacitus as the chief source of the pagan "dream" that the Christians worship the head of an ass and argues out that his account of the Jews and their religious practices contradicts itself on this point. | | | Tertullian acknowledges the existence of both fallen angels as described in scripture and extends the name demon to them from pagan usage. |
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http://duke.usask.ca/~niallm/252/Tertulli.htm
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| | Tertullian : Sources for this information |
| | There is a reference to the Oxford Bodleian Tertullian which indicates that ff.1-18 are in the same (Norman) hand as the Carilef bible. | | | He argues that Tertullian never in fact left the church, but that the 'Montanist' circles in Carthage remained in communion with the main church, basing his arguments mostly on the Passio Perpetuae. | | | This is one of the articles referred to in O'Malley's Tertullian and the Bible (qv). |
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http://www.tertullian.net/sources.htm
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| | The ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church |
| | In spite of his lapse from the Church, Tertullian exercise a great influence on the Latin Fathers who were to follow him. | | | All that these verses establish is that Tertullian objected to women being involved in teaching, baptizing and other priestly ministries. | | | This led him to leave the Church and join the Montanists in 210 AD, and later to found his own sect. |
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http://www.womenpriests.org/traditio/tertul.asp
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| | Tertullian : Read this first |
| | Most of those extant have come down to us by the slenderest of threads, and the very nature of Tertullian's terse and ironic style, means that copyists made many errors, and in some cases his text is beyond certain restoration. | | | Jerome says he lived to an advanced old age, Barnes suggests we do not know this is true, and since his last known works place him about the age of 40, for all we know he may have been martyred (p.59). | | | It is therefore argued that in view of the way that the early church venerated North African 'Montanists' like St.Perpetua, and the use of Tertullian by St. Cyprian, that he must in fact have never been condemned, or done more than take part in a para-church grouping of those influenced by Montanism. |
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http://www.tertullian.org/readfirst.htm
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| | Tertullian |
| | He left the church in 213 and joined a prophetic movement known as Montanism. | | | Carthage was part of the Roman Empire and a leading center of Christianity during the third century. | | | He returned to Carthage, where he wrote for over twenty years in defense of the Christian faith. |
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http://www.allaboutreligion.org/tertullian-faq.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Tertullian (Early Church Fathers): Books: GEOFFREY DUNN |
| | His literary output is wide-ranging, and provides an invaluable insight into the Christian Church in the crucial period when the Roman Empire was in decline. | | | Holy Spirit, New Testament, God the Father, Lord God, Time of Persecution, Corpus Christianorum, Against Praxeas, Against the Valentinians, North Africa, Jesus Christ, Ante-Nicene Fathers, Christ of God, Luke's Gospel, New Prophecy, Acts of the Scillitan Martyrs, Against Hermogenes, Tertullian's Montanist, Ante-Nicene Library, Old Latin, Azzali Bernardelli | | | Amazon.com: Tertullian (Early Church Fathers): Books: GEOFFREY DUNN |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0415282314?v=glance
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| | The Ecole Glossary |
| | Skeptical of the value of Greek philosophy in articulating Christian truths, Tertullian asked "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?" His treatises, thirty-one of which still exist, are arranged according to Apologetic, Disciplinary and Controversial texts. | | | His Apology is dedicated to proving the social injustice directed against Christians, and his Against Praxeas was written to refute Modal | | | Tertullian was the first to use the term Trinitas (trinity) to describe the Godhead. |
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http://www2.evansville.edu/ecoleweb/glossary/tertullian.html
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| | Tertullian Mocks Jewish 'Slanders' |
| | Tertullian wrote this passage late in the 2nd century, CE. | | | There may also be a connection between this gardener and the story in John 20.14-16 where Mary Magdalene, on seeing the resurrected Jesus, fails to recognize him, taking him to be the gardener. | | | In the context he is imagining himself, after Jesus' triumphant return, mocking the now damned Jews for their perversions of of the truth about Jesus (from his point of view). |
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~humm/Topics/JewishJesus/tertullian.html
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| | Tertullian, De Spectaculis, Religious Drama - Music |
| | Like many of his time, Tertullian in De Spectaculis rejected the theatrical performance in the name of religion. | | | See a modern urge for a Spectacle of Worship. | | | Religious drama and music was dangerous because the performers knew neither the nature of the God nor His Adversary who took advantage of ritual to steal in. |
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http://www.piney.com/WinTertDeSpec.html
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| | TERTULLIAN |
| | Drawing from older tradition, Tertullian insisted that for serious crimes—idolatry, murder, adultery—only one post-baptismal instance of repentance, satisfaction, and forgiveness is possible, as far as the church is concerned. | | | Tertullian held a "traducian" understanding of the generation of the soul--that is, the view that each new soul is generated from the material of the souls of the parents (parallel with the procreation of bodies). | | | So radically consistent was Tertullian that many scholars think of him as the first “fundamentalist,” or the first “puritan.” Later in his life, even the “mainstream” church became too inconsistently monotheistic for his tastes and he joined up with a break-away movement called Montanism. |
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http://faculty.fullerton.edu/bstarr/345A.TERTULLIAN.htm
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| | Tertullian on Encyclopedia.com |
| | After long defending the Montanists (see Montanism), he left the church (213) to join them; he later established his own sect, known as Tertullianists. | | | Sentences of his that have become proverbial are "The blood of martyrs is the seed of the church," and "It is certain because it is impossible" (often quoted incorrectly as "I believe it because it is impossible"). | | | TERTULLIAN [Tertullian] (Quintus Septimus Florens Tertullianus), c.160-c.230, Roman theologian and Christian apologist, b. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/t/tertulli.asp
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| | Tertullian - Wikiquote |
| | The Tertullian Project Latin texts, translations in many languages, manuscripts etc. | | | Vincent of Lerins on his esteem of Tertullian's writings. | | | Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache. |
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tertullian
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| | EXCERPTS FROM TERTULLIAN |
| | Tertullian is traditionally regarded as a fiery apologist of unknown biography who burst into Latin Christianity, in the reign of Septimius Severus, with a number of remarkable treatises that he composed over a relatively short period of time, after which he fizzled out for the rest of his long-lasting life. | | | Surprisingly, he focused his attacks on a Greek painter, and also fought some other unfamiliar character that could not share his admiration for a strange group of visionaries who lived in Phrygia long time since. | | | A quite different approach is presented in Did Tertullian really exist? |
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http://www.geocities.com/tertulliancyprian
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| | Tertullian Apology |
| | Tertullian, Apology, born 155, /160, Carthage [now in Tunisia] d. | | | We give offence to the Romans, we are excluded from the rights and privileges of Romans, because we do not worship the gods of Rome. |
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http://www.piney.com/TertullianApology.html
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| | Tertullian |
| | Tertullian was a great writer from about 190 to 200 after 200 AD he joined the Montanists heresy. | | | He made popular the Idea of three strikes and you are out theology. |
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http://www.biblefacts.org/history/Tertullian.html
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| | Ancient History Sourcebook: Tertullian: On Pagan Learning, c. 220 CE |
| | For this is our primary faith, that there is nothing which we ought to believe besides! | | | Ancient History Sourcebook: Tertullian: On Pagan Learning, c. | | | If you do reduplicate the document, indicate the source. |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/200Tertullian-pagan.html
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| | Tertullian |
| | Only, I pray that, when you are asking, you be mindful likewise of Tertullian the sinner. |
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http://www.baptism.org.uk/tertullian1.htm
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| | Tertullian |
| | The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicity (sometimes ascribed to Tertullian) | | | Estimated Range of Dating: 197-220 C.E. Chronological List |
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http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/tertullian.html
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| | The Tertullian Project |
| | A collection of material ancient and modern about the ancient Christian Latin writer Tertullian and his writings. | | | Also at this site: Roger Pearse's pages; Additional Fathers; QuickLatin |
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http://www.tertullian.org
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| | TERTULLIAN (Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus) |
| | Lit.: C. Freppel, Tertullien, 2 Bände, Paris 1864; - A. Schmidt, De Latinitate Tertullianea, 2 Bände, Erlangen 1870/72; - H. Rönsch, Das Neue Testament Tertullian's [sic], Leipzig 1871; - C. Leimbach, Beiträge zur Abendmahlslehre T.s, Gotha 1874; - G. Hausschild, T. als Wortbildner, Progr. |
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http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/t/tertullian_q_s_f.shtml
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