At the end of the 2nd century, it is accepted at Antioch by Theophilus ( died c. 183 ), and in Africa by Tertullian ( c. 160 – 220 ).

Treatment of eschatology continued in the West in the teachings of Tertullian ( c. 160 – 225 ), and was given fuller reflection and speculation soon after by Origen ( c. 185 – 254 ).

( Tertullian, c. 207 )

The Church Fathers, witnessed by the Muratorian Canon, Irenaeus ( c. 170 ), Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and Tertullian, held that the Gospel of Luke was written by Luke.

The earliest confirmed written evidence for Christianity in Britain is a statement by Tertullian, c. 200 AD, in which he described " all the limits of the Spains, and the diverse nations of the Gauls, and the haunts of the Britons, inaccessible to the Romans, but subjugated to Christ ".

The first mention of " Christian " art is found near the beginning of the 2nd century in the writings of Tertullian ( c. 160-220 ) and in Clement of Alexandria ( c. 150-212 ).

Tertullian ( c. 160 – c. 225 ), who wrote in Latin, also understood (" I will ascend above the tops of the clouds ; I will make myself like the Most High ") as spoken by the Devil, but " Lucifer " is not among the numerous names and phrases he used to describe the Devil.

Tertullian ( c. 155 – 230 ) too, while advising postponement of baptism until after marriage, mentions that it was customary to baptise infants, with sponsors speaking on their behalf.

Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, anglicised as Tertullian ( c. 160 – c. 225 AD ), was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa.

The best-known defender of the New Prophecy was undoubtedly Tertullian, who believed that the claims of Montanus were genuine beginning c. 207.

Tertullian of Carthage ( c. 160-c. 240 ):

When Tertullian, a Montanist, furiously applied the term to some bishop with whom he was at odds ( either Pope Callixtus I or Agrippinus of Carthage ), c. 220, over a relaxation of the Church's penitential discipline allowing repentant adulterers and fornicators back into the Church, it was in bitter irony:

The earliest Latin example is by Tertullian ( c. 220 ), who used the phrase to describe a mixed substance with composite properties such as electrum, a somewhat different sense than the modern meaning.

Before the fourth century we find allusions to the evening prayer in the earlier Fathers, Clement I of Rome ( Clemens Romanus ), St. Ignatius, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Origen, the Canons of St. Hippolytus, St. Cyprian ( for texts see Bäumer-Biron, l. c., I, 20 sqq., 73-4, 76, 78 ).

Melito of Sardis ( died c. 180 ) was the bishop of Sardis near Smyrna in western Anatolia, and a great authority in Early Christianity: Jerome, speaking of the Old Testament canon established by Melito, quotes Tertullian to the effect that he was esteemed a prophet by many of the faithful.

The Carthaginian Tertullian ( c. 160 – c. 220 ) compared Noah's dove, who " announced to the world the assaugement of divine wrath, when she had been sent out of the ark and returned with the olive branch " with the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove that descends in baptism, " bringing us the peace of God, sent out from the heavens ".

The North African Tertullian ( c. 160 – c. 225 ), writing of the apostles, indicated that he was obliged to believe that apart from Peter, who was certainly married, the apostles were continent.

James Johnson argued that A Modest Proposal was largely influenced and inspired by Tertullian ’ s Apology: a satirical attack against early Roman persecution of Christianity.

Johnson notes Swift ’ s obvious affinity for Tertullian and the bold stylistic and structural similarities between the works A Modest Proposal and Apology.

" Stylistically, Swift and Tertullian share the same command of sarcasm and language.

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.

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It is evident from these particulars that Abrasax was the name of the first of the 365 Archons, and accordingly stood below Sophia and Dynamis and their progenitors ; but his position is not expressly stated, so that the writer of the supplement to Tertullian had some excuse for confusing him with " the Supreme God.

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Tertullian believed Atlantis was once real and wrote that in the Atlantic Ocean once existed "( the isle ) that was equal in size to Libya or Asia " referring to Plato's geographical description of Atlantis.

Writing a little later, Tertullian makes the same main point but adds expressly that recently founded churches ( such as his own in Carthage ) could be considered apostolic if they had " derived the tradition of faith and the seeds of doctrine " from an apostolic church.

Tertullian named him as the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, but this and other attributions are conjecture.

Tertullian and other Western writers regard Barnabas as the author of the Letter to the Hebrews.

This may have been the Roman tradition — which Tertullian usually follows — and in Rome the epistle may have had its first readers.

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Multiple early Christian documents discuss the " ordinance " or " several ceremonies ... explained in the Apostolical Constitutions " of " chrism ", including documents by Theophilus ( d. 181 ) and Tertullian ( d. 220 ).

Among the persons whose writings form the basis for Patristics, i. e. prominent early Church Fathers, are Justin Martyr ( c. 100-c. 165 ), Irenaeus of Lyons ( c. 120-c. 202 ), Clement of Alexandria ( c. 150-c. 215 ), Tertullian ( c. 160-c. 225 ), Origen ( c. 185-c. 254 ), Cyprian of Carthage ( d. 258 ), Athanasius ( c. 296-c. 373 ), Gregory of Nazianzus ( 329-389 ), Basil of Caesarea ( c. 330-379 ), Gregory of Nyssa ( c. 330-c. 395 ) Theodore of Mopsuestia ( c. 350-428 ), Augustine of Hippo ( 354-430 ), Pelagius, Vincent of Lérins ( d. bef.

Tertullian ( c. 160 – c. 220, ) records that the Jews called Christians " Nazarenes " from Jesus being a man of Nazareth, though he also makes the connection with Nazarites in.

There was no full consensus on the doctrine of perpetual virginity within the early Church by the end of the second century, e. g. Tertullian ( c. 160 – c. 225 ) did not teach the doctrine ( although he taught virgin birth ), but Irenaeus ( c. 130 – c. 202 ) taught perpetual virginity, along with other Marian themes.

"; the proper Latin quotation Credo quia absurdum est, is from the Christian apologist Tertullian ( c. 160 – c. 220 AD ), who rejected rationalism and accepted a Gospel which addressed itself to the " non-rational levels of perception.

Tertullian states that these Acts were written in honour of St Paul, by a presbyter of Asia, whose fraud was identified, and he was degraded from his office, at a date about AD 160.