Further, Tertullian has been thought to be a lawyer based on his use of legal analogies and an identification of him with the jurist Tertullianus, who is quoted in the Pandects.

Tertullian, the prince of realists and practical theologian, carried his realism to the verge of materialism.

* Tertullian, Christian theologian, Father of Christian Latin literature

Despite the fact that the early Christian theologian Tertullian wrote that Jesus was a eunuch, there is no corroboration in any other early source.

* Tertullian ( Christian theologian )

Tertullian, an influential early Christian theologian and apologist, believed that philosophy has little to do with theology, arguing that the use of philosophy often corrupted theology, leading to unorthodox beliefs that were not grounded in the early Christian tradition.

5 ), and also in Tertullian, where it is too close to be anything but a conscious following of the Greek.

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.

She argues that the legacy of Christian misogyny was consolidated by the so-called " Fathers " of the Church, like Tertullian, who thought a woman was not only " the gateway of the devil " but also " a temple built over a sewer.

Tertullian ( early 3rd century ) also said " to Sabbaths are strange " and unobserved.

* Some Latin Christian authors, such as Tertullian and Augustine, followed Varro's threefold usage, though Augustine also used the term more simply to mean ' reasoning or discussion concerning the deity '

Tertullian, " On Monogamy " ch. vi quotes a brief phrase —" follow the better things "— from 3 John 1. 11 " Beloved, imitate not that which is evil, but that which is good ", a phrase that might also have been adapted from the Septuagint Psalm xxxvi.

) Finally, any notion of Tertullian being a priest is also questionable.

The rule of faith, however, seems to be also applied by Tertullian to some distinct formula of doctrine, and he gives a succinct statement of the Christian faith under this term ( De praescriptione, xiii ).

He also defines the term “ skepticism ” as he uses it and identifies two types of skeptic, the Apollonian, who is “ committed to clarity and rationality ” and the Dionysian, who is “ committed to passion and instinct .” William James, Bertrand Russell, and Friedrich Nietzsche exemplify the Apollonian skeptic, Carroll says, and Charles Sanders Peirce, Tertullian, Søren Kierkegaard, and Blaise Pascal are Dionysian skeptics.

* Tertullian: Early Church Fathers – Additional Texts ( John Selby Watson's translation of 1853 ; also a translation of the Prologi of Trogus, by the webmaster Roger Pearse.

Some scholars have postulated that Abellio is the same name as Apollo, who in Crete and elsewhere was called Abelios ( Greek ), and by the Italians and some Dorians Apello, and that the deity is the same as the Gallic Apollo mentioned by Caesar, and also the same as the Belis or Belenus mentioned by Tertullian and Herodian.

The Donatists also drew their beliefs from the writings of Tertullian and Cyprian.

It also resembles a Latin poem by Tertullian and Bishop Marbod.

It is the term given to the predominant form of the New Testament text witnessed in the Old Latin translation from the Greek ; and also in quotations from certain 2nd and 3rd-century Christian writers, including Cyprian, Tertullian and Irenaeus.

Literary works also preserve some of Janus's cult epithets, such as Ovid's long passage of the Fasti devoted to Janus at the beginning of Book I ( 89-293 ), Tertullian, Augustine and Arnobius.

Similar communal meals are attested also in the " Apostolic Tradition " often attributed to Hippolytus of Rome ( who does not use the term " agape ") and by Tertullian, who does.

Christian exegesis of the " evil one " in have also led some commentators, like Tertullian, to agree that Cain was the son of the Devil in Christianity or some fallen angel.

Carpocrates is also mentioned by Tertullian and Hippolytus, both of whom seem to rely on Irenaeus ; and also perhaps by Origen and Hegesippus.

Tertullian, along with Epiphanius of Salamis, also charged that Marcion set aside the gospels of Matthew, Mark and John, and used Luke alone.

Tertullian also attacked this view in De Carne Christi.

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.

Tertullian also discussed how the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son.

; Tertullian, possibly Hegesippus, and Helvidius accepted this view In reference to this it is occasionally noted that James ( Jacob Iakobos ) as oldest of the brothers takes the name of Joseph's father ( also James, Iakobos in the Solomonic genealogy of Jesus in Matthew ), when in Bible times the grandson occasionally gets the name of the grandfather.

" ( It also notes that the game was frowned upon by some early Christian writers, such as Tertullian.

Tertullian in an anti-heretical apologetic alludes to instances of the ' interpretation of tongues ' as one among several examples of ' spiritual gifts ' common enough in his day to be easily encountered and provide evidence that God was at work in the church:

The Early Church Fathers including Tertullian, Jerome, and Augustine state the Greek word is ambiguous and the women in 1 Corinthians 9: 5 were women ministering to the Apostles as women ministered to Christ ( cf Matthew 27: 55, Luke 8: 1-3 ), and were not wives, and assert they left their " offices of marriage " to follow Christ and to preach.

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 ".

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

The statement " Credo quia absurdum " (" I believe because it is absurd "), often attributed to Tertullian, is sometimes cited as an example of such a view in the Church Fathers, but this appears to be a misquotation from Tertullian's De Carne Christi ( On the Flesh of Christ

Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, and Tertullian all made explicit references to the concept of a thousand year earthly kingdom at Christ ’ s coming.

Tertullian, Irenaeus, Hippolytus of Rome, Epiphanius, and Jerome ascribed the movement to a heretic named Ebion or Hebion ( Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics 33, On the Flesh of Christ 14. 18 .; Irenaeus Against Heretics 5. 1. 3 .; Hippolytus of Rome Refutation of All Heresies 7. 23.

Tertullian goes on to briefly discuss the revelation of God through Christ.

Having given an explanation of the nature and divinity of Christ, Tertullian shifts to the charges of treason.

The second recorded use of " Vicar of Christ is found in the epistles of Tertullian in the 3rd century, with a different theological slant to refer to the Holy Spirit, that is, as Christ is not physically performing miracles in the Church, Holy Spirit acts as his Vicar on his behalf, performing miracles and preventing the Church err.

The Church Father Tertullian wrote, " And wherefore does this conclusion of the gospel affirm that these things were written unless it is that you might believe, it says, that Jesus Christ is the son of God?

He then went to Alexandria, where he developed his doctrine, a modified Marcionism, which ( according to Tertullian ) admitted that Christ possessed true human flesh but continued to deny the nativity.