41. Tertullian - Definition And More From The Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary Definition of word from the MerriamWebster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tertullian

42. Tertullian : The Montanists A short history of the movement and the participation by tertullian. http://www.tertullian.org/montanism.htm

The Montanists Montanus lived in the Phrygian area of Asia Minor at the back end of the 2nd Century AD. He declared that the Holy Spirit was giving new revelations to the church, and named himself and two women, Priscilla and Maximilla, as prophets, although there were others. This was referred to as the New Prophecy. In the west, among the Montanist leaders was Proclus, with whom the Roman presbyter Gaius published a Debate. The emphases of the New Prophecy seem to have been on resisting persecution, fasting, and avoiding remarriage, together with hostility to any compromise with sin. Few of these points were controversial when judged against the ascetism of the next century. Tertullian tells us (in the quote by ' Praedestinatus ' and in De Ieiunio ) that the Spirit proclaimed no innovation in doctrine, but only gave directions about matters of church discipline, which were coming to be the prerogative of the bishop. It would seem that the Montanists were orthodox in all matters of doctrine. Responses to this were quite mixed in the church. After all, prophecy was a genuine gift of God, according to the New Testament. A reading of the anti-Montanist writers in Eusebius'

43. Tertullian Summary | BookRags.com tertullian. tertullian summary with 16 pages of encyclopedia entries, research information, and more. http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/Tertullian

44. Tertullian (Christian Theologian) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia tertullian (Christian theologian), c. 155/160, Carthage now in Tunisia after 220Carthageimportant early Christian theologian, polemicist, and moralist who, as the initiator http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/588511/Tertullian

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45. Tertullian - OrthodoxWiki Quintus Septimius Florens tertullianus, more commonly known as tertullian of Carthage, was a prolific Christian writer, activist, and apologist of the late second century who http://orthodoxwiki.org/Tertullian

Tertullian From OrthodoxWiki Jump to: navigation search Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus , more commonly known as Tertullian of Carthage , was a prolific Christian writer, activist, and apologist of the late second century who took part in the issues of doctrine debated during the early years of Christianity. His works provide us with some of the best witnesses in the West of Orthodox Christian thinking and practices of the time. He helped establish Latin as an ecclesiastical language, paralleling that of Greek. During his early years he denounced doctrines considered heretical at the time, but in the latter apart of his life he began to adopt views that were considered schismatic if not heretical themselves. Thus, while having contributed much to defining Orthodoxy, he ended his life leading his own sect after have joining the Montanist movement Life What little is known of Tertullian's life is from references in his writings and from the writings of Eusebius of Caesarea and Jerome , who wrote in the 4th century. Tertullian was born about the year 155 in Carthage in North Africa into a pagan family. His father is believed to have been a centurion or aide de camp in the Roman army in Africa. He was educated in Carthage that was noted as a home of orators. He was knowledgeable in Greek as well as Latin. Although the works are no longer available today, he notes in his own writings his authorship of three books written in Greek. Being scholarly and in such an educated environment he received a very good education, studying mainly jurisprudence. By profession he appears to have been an advocate in the law courts of Rome. Apparently, he was a

46. Theology WebSite: Church History Study Helps: Tertullian tertullian tertullian. 1. About three years after Irenaeus was chosen bishop of Lyon, in July of 180 AD, there occurred an event whose record provides our first knowledge of http://www.theologywebsite.com/history/tertullian.shtml

Church History Study Helps: Tertullian Tertullian 1. About three years after Irenaeus was chosen bishop of Lyon, in July of 180 AD, there occurred an event whose record provides our first knowledge of Christianity in the province of North Africa: the martyrdom in the capital city Carthage, of twelve believers from the town of Scillium. This event so impacted the outlook of Christianity in this region, that the area long thereafter viewed itself as a church of martyrs. This very outlook is found in the many tracts we have of Tertullian, the first Christian writer of note to use Latin, and the man who gave to Latin theology its vocabulary and basic agenda. 2. Tertullian was a convert to Christianity, a native of Carthage who probably never strayed far from home, and a man whose professional education was in rhetoric. Tertullian bursts on the scene in North Africa in 197 with the appearance of his Apology. He seems to have died around 225. In between these two dates, he published eloquent, witty and argumentative tracts on doctrine and morals which reveal him to have been a masterful debater as well as a Christian of radical and uncompromising spirit. Sources utilized in these pages may include: Everett Ferguson's: Backgrounds of Early Christianity Walker's: History of Christianity (out of print) (These links will take you to book detail pages at Amazon.com)

47. Tertullian - Theopedia, An Encyclopedia Of Biblical Christianity tertullian (ca. 150225), classified as one of the early church fathers, was a notable early Christian apologist. He was born in the city of Carthage in North Africa. http://www.theopedia.com/Tertullian

Tertullian From Theopedia Jump to: navigation search Tertullian Tertullian (ca. 150-225), classified as one of the early church fathers , was a notable early Christian apologist . He was born in the city of Carthage in North Africa. Both of his parents were pagan, and his father was a centurion. Tertullian received a thorough education in the knowledge of the Romans and the Greeks, and he apparently practiced law in Rome before his return to Carthage and conversion. His writings indicate that he did not become a Christian until he was in his thirties or forties. Multimedia Tertullian and the Early Church , by Gerald Bray Contents Biographical sketch Relation of Jerusalem with Athens Notes See also ... External links Biographical sketch Once Tertullian converted to Christianity, he held nothing back. He used his vast learning in the cause of Christ. At the risk of his life, he wrote several works to the Romans, defending Christianity and attempting to persuade the authorities to halt their senseless persecution. Tertullian apparently served as an elder or presbyter in Carthage, completely devoting his life to the ministry of Christ. Not only did he write apologetic works to the Romans, but he also composed a considerable number of writings in which he defended orthodox Christianity against various heretics. Tertullian also wrote exhortations for the Church itself. He lived during an era in which the Church was coming to grips with the reality that Christ had not returned within the expected time frame of the earliest Christians. Tertullian often felt that the leadership of the Church was growing complacent as it sought to find its place in a secular world which would be its home for the long haul.

48. Tertullian tertullian A great Christian theologian and apologist was once part of a movement called Montanism, then created his own sect, called the tertullianists. http://www.allaboutreligion.org/tertullian-faq.htm

Tertullian You are here: Religion Learn More about the Beginning of Christianity! Tertullian Who was Tertullian? Tertullian (c.160 - c.230) was a gifted Christian apologist and theologian. He was born and raised in Carthage. Carthage was part of the Roman Empire and a leading center of Christianity during the third century. Tertullian was trained as a lawyer in Rome. He returned to Carthage, where he wrote for over twenty years in defense of the Christian faith. While Tertullian's writings failed to convert much of the Roman world to Christianity, his works contributed to the Church's understanding of Christian doctrine. Later in life, Tertullian became frustrated with the laxity of his Orthodox brethren. He left the church in 213 and joined a prophetic movement known as Montanism. Montanism was founded in the 170s by a Christian leader named Montanus. Montanism demanded that its members adhere to very high standards of behavior. Members of the sect believed that they were the only true Christians. Tertullian left that movement to form his own sect, the Tertullianists, which survived in Africa until the fifth century.

49. Tertullian tertullian Theologian. Introduction. Although Paul writes to the Corinthians that the general rule of God in the church of Christ is that not many wise men after the flesh http://www.prca.org/books/portraits/tertull.htm

Chapter 3 Tertullian: Theologian Introduction Although Paul writes to the Corinthians that the general rule of God in the church of Christ is that "not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called" (I Cor. 1:26), nevertheless, God is sometimes pleased to give to the church of Christ men of outstanding ability and great intellectual, moral, and spiritual strength, who stand as giants in the annuls of the church's history. Such a man was Tertullian. Though he is little known and though the Roman Catholic Church, with some reason, considers him a heretic and apostate, he remains a towering figure whose importance in the church stands on a par with such men as Augustine, Luther and Calvin. Much of his life has been lost in the dusty past. Only the sketchiest of details have come down to us. He was from Cathage, a city whose importance in the history of the Roman Empire is known to the youngest of school boys who have learned a bit of ancient history. The church of the third century had spread throughout the Roman Empire. It was divided geographically and nationally into two parts. The Eastern Church, including Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, Greece, and Egypt, was basically Greek. It spoke the Greek language and possessed the speculative Greek mind. The Western Church, including Italy, Spain, Gaul, and North Africa, was Latin. It spoke the Latin language and was under the influence of the practical Roman mind with its emphasis on law. Tertullian belonged to the Western Church.

50. Tertullian@Everything2.com An early Christian writer who flourish ed around 200 CE. The life of tertullian is a hard thing to pin down exactly, and even harder to pin down correctly. http://everything2.com/title/Tertullian

51. Western North African Christianity: Tertullian African Christianity Homepage Western North African Christianity tertullian (160240) Western North Africa Perpetua Felicitas http://www.bethel.edu/~letnie/AfricanChristianity/WNATertullian.html

African Christianity Homepage Western North African Christianity Tertullian (160-240) Western North Africa Tertullian Cyprian Donatists Circumcellions Augustine of Hippo Tertullian, a lay theologian from Carthage, North Africa,was perhaps the most important theologian in the Western Church at the end of the second century. He had been trained in Stoic philosophy, rhetoric and possibly law, when he converted to Christianity in Rome, at the age of 40. He returned to North Africa, and used his literary skill to defend the Christian community against their persecutors. Tertullian set the North African church on a rigorous and uncompromising path. He believed that once a seeker has found the truth, it is time to stop any further seeking, and simply to believe that truth. He vigorously opposed mixing the Greco-Roman philosophical tradition into Christian theological thinking, or using Greek or Roman concepts to help understand the truths of Christianity. He condemned "all attempts to produce a mottled Christianity of Stoic, Platonic, and dialectic composition." (Against Heretics) Such attempts led him to the rhetorical question, "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?" He believed that Christians should rely only on the bible as a source for their thinking.

52. Tertullian : The Renaissance Rediscovery tertullian's works were rediscovered during the renaissance, and in the 15th century many famous humanists were involved. http://www.tertullian.net/rediscovery.htm

Tertullian in the Renaissance : The rediscovery of his work in the 15th century During the dark ages, Tertullian was little read. Almost all the citations that may be found in the Patrologia Latina have been shown to be derived at second hand from Jerome or Eusebius . Possibly the appearance of his works in the Decretum Gelasianum under apocrypha was a factor. However it is perhaps more likely that the content of Tertullian's works was obsolete, dealing as it did with forgotten heresies, or else with issues which were handled in more depth, with more authority and in easier Latin by later writers. Either way, he remained only a name to all but a few such as the Spaniard Agobard of Lyons or Hrabanus Maurus of Fulda In the middle ages, the situation was little better, and it is mainly the existence of manuscripts that gives much indication of the extent of circulation. With the renaissance came the urge to rediscover the writers of antiquity, Christian as well as pagan. Bibliophiles scoured the monastic libraries of Italy, Germany, France and England, searching for works by once-famous authors who had been forgotten. Nor were they disappointed. Central to the search were the group of people known as the Florentine humanists, including the book-collector Niccolň Niccoli, the Papal Secretary Poggio Bracciolini, and their associates. Acting as a go-between was the monk of San Marco, Ambrogio Traversari. The letters among these people tell us something of what was going on. The rediscovery of the works of Tertullian begins at the start of the 15th century.

53. CHURCH FATHERS: On The Apparel Of Women (Tertullian) Featuring the Church Fathers, Catholic Encyclopedia, Summa Theologica and more. http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0402.htm

Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... Fathers of the Church > On the Apparel of Women (Tertullian) On the Apparel of Women Book I Chapter 1. Introduction. Modesty in Apparel Becoming to Women, in Memory of the Introduction of Sin into the World Through a Woman If there dwelt upon earth a faith as great as is the reward of faith which is expected in the heavens, no one of you at all, best beloved sisters, from the time that she had first known the Lord and learned (the truth ) concerning her own (that is, woman's ) condition, would have desired too gladsome (not to say too ostentatious) a style of dress; so as not rather to go about in humble garb, and rather to affect meanness of appearance, walking about as Eve mourning and repentant , in order that by every garb of penitence she might the more fully expiate that which she derives from Eve, sin , and the odium ( attaching to her as the cause ) of human perdition. In pains and in anxieties do you bear ( children woman ; and toward your husband (is) your inclination, and he lords it over you. And do you not know that you are (each) an Eve ? The sentence of God on this sex of yours lives in this age: the guilt must of necessity live too.

54. Tertullian - On Opentopia, Find Out More About Tertullian Quintus Septimius Florens tertullianus, anglicized as tertullian, (ca. 155 – 230) was a church leader and prolific author of Early Christianity. http://encycl.opentopia.com/term/Tertullian

About Opentopia Opentopia Directory Encyclopedia ... Tools Tertullian Encyclopedia T TE TER : Tertullian Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus anglicized as Tertullian ca. ) was a church leader and prolific author of Early Christianity . He was born, lived, and died in Carthage , in what is today Tunisia Tertullian denounced Christian doctrines he considered heretical , but later in life adopted views that came to be regarded as heretical themselves. He was the first great writer of Latin Christianity, thus sometimes known as the "father of the Latin Church". He introduced the term Trinity , as the Latin trinitas , to the Christian vocabulary A History of Christian Thought Paul Tillich , Touchstone Books, 1972. ISBN 0 -671-21426-8 (p. 43) and also probably of the formula "three Persons, one Substance" as the Latin "tres Personae una Substantia " (itself from the Koine Greek "treis Hypostases Homoousios ") and also the terms vetus testamentum ("old testament") and novum testamentum ("new testament"). In his Apologeticus , he was the first Latin author to qualify Christianism as the 'vera religio', and symmetrically relegating the classical Empire religion and other accepted cults as mere 'superstitions'. Tertullian left the Church of Rome late in his life and joined the heretical Montanists , thus explaining his failure to attain saint hood.

55. Tertullian tertullian tertullian, or tertullianus as his name was in its latinized form, was one of the earliest writers who used the latin language in written composition. http://www.carthage.lib.il.us/community/churches/primbap/Tertullian.html

Tertullian The second century has been called the age of apologies or defenses of the Christian religion. Paganism, which is but another name for heathenism or Polytheism, was the prevalent religion of the Roman Empire at that time, and Christians were severely persecuted by the emperors. "Men pleading for religious liberty before their rulers, who felt it to be their duty to exterminate the Christian profession, were necessarily in earnest, and this earnestness and devotion to the sacred cause of Christ, inspired them with rhetorical pathos unknown in calmer times;" - Hassell's Church History, page 370. Among these writers were Justin Martyr, and Tertullian. The apology of Tertullian is certainly one of the noblest literary productions of antiquity, and should be read by every one, but is too lengthy for insertion here. As we study the religious history of the second century of the Christian era, and learn of the zeal of those who then opposed error and published the true gospel of Jesus Christ, our heart is caused to glow with gratitude to God that he is still preserving a people who contend for the same faith. Venema is quoted by Ford as saying: "Tertullian has no where mentioned Pedo-baptism (infant baptism) among the customs of the church that were publickly received, and usually observed." Thus we learn that in the second century the baptism of infants was unknown as a practice of the church. Mosheim in his Ecclesiastical History says of the first century: "The sacrament of baptism was administered in this century without the public assemblies, in places appointed and prepared for the purpose, and was performed by immersion of the whole body in the baptismal font."

56. Tertullian A study of the Fathers of the Church, the Councils and historical documents supports ordaining women as priests in the Catholic Church. I provide detailed, exhaustive evidence. http://www.womenpriests.org/traditio/tertul.asp

57. Tertullian: A Spiritual Bulldozer tertullain was a 2nd century Christian church father who believed that Greek philosophy is something completely foreign to Christian theology. http://earlyfathers.com/tertullian/

Early Church Fathers History of the Early Church in Portraits Tertullian A Spiritual Bulldozer 155/160-after 220 AD What comes to our mind when we hear the word “Africa”? Giraffes, huge elephants, cheetahs that blink lazily in the hot sun but can throw themselves on antelopes any time, and lions that sneak to a watering place. But if you turn over the map of the Mediterranean, you will discover that if one leaves Italy and sails right to the south, one will get directly to Africa, which is very near. As for cultural and economic development, Carthage, the biggest city of the north-African coast, was second only to Rome, the great capital of the Empire. Yes, such eminent figures of the Christian thought as Tertullian, Cyprian and Augustine were Africans. His full name was Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus. He did not speak about himself much, and all that we know from others was written much later. However, we know quite a lot. His education was exceptional (and we will repeat this phrase a few more times because all Church Fathers were very well educated people): he studied grammar, rhetoric, literature, philosophy and law. His father was probably a military man. When he was about twenty, he went to Rome to finish his studies and fund a job (he aspired to become a lawyer). In the collection of the acts of legislation called “Digesta”, published by the emperor Justinian, a certain Tertullian is mentioned, and many believe that it is the future great Apologist. At Rome he became interested in Christianity, but it did not change much his morale: he was a typical representative of the Roman “gilded youth”.

58. Tertullian Definition Of Tertullian In The Free Online Encyclopedia. tertullian (Quintus Septimus Florens tertullianus) (t rtŭl`yən), c.160–c.230, Roman theologian and Christian apologist, b. Carthage. He was the son of a centurion and was http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Tertullian

59. Tertullian Quotes 28 quotes and quotations by tertullian Related Authors Tony Robbins Zig Ziglar Mark Twain C. S. Lewis Helen Keller http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/tertullian.html

60. Tertullian Biography Summary | BookRags.com tertullian summary with 266 pages of lesson plans, quotes, chapter summaries, analysis, encyclopedia entries, essays, research information, and more. http://www.bookrags.com/Tertullian

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