This view influences later Ambrose of Milan and Tertullian, who wrote about the virgin birth of the Mother of God.

In about 200 AD, Tertullian wrote ( Against Marcion IV.

Tertullian has been accused of going to an unhealthy extreme in his counsels of asceticism ; for example, about ejaculatory orgasms he wrote:

Marcionism was denounced by its opponents as heresy, and written against, notably by Tertullian, in a five-book treatise Adversus Marcionem, written about 208.

Tertullian cited Luke 6: 43-45 ( a good tree does not produce bad fruit ) and Luke 5: 36-38 ( nobody tears a piece from a new garment to patch an old garment or puts new wine in old wineskins ), in theorizing that Marcion set about to recover the authentic teachings of Jesus.

Not much is known about the life of Quintus Septimus Florens Tertullian.

Tertullian wrote about Marcion gnostics in his work Against Marcion indicating that there they believed in baptism of the dead.

Tertullian remarked to his wife about Christian practices: " will you not seem to be doing magic?

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.

Citing the possibly first-century Didache and the Letter of Barnabas of about the same period, the Epistle to Diognetus and Tertullian, the Catholic Church declares that " since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion.

The Coptic Church informs that the Fathers of the Church and scholars like St. Justin Martyr, Tertullian, St. Hippolytus, Origen, St. Ambrose, and St. Cyril of Jerusalem, spoke about the Holy Myron and how they received its use in anointing by tradition.

According to the Liber Pontificalis, it was first used in the first half of the fourth century, although Tertullian wrote an essay no later than 220 AD titled De Pallio ( On the Pallium ).

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 ).

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 ).

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

Tertullian, writing of the church meetings of the Montanists ( to whom he belonged ), described in detail the practice of prophecy in the 2nd century church.

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

According to Tertullian, Clement was consecrated by Saint Peter, and he is known to have been a leading member of the church in Rome in the late 1st century.

Tertullian, a 2nd century Church Father, described Jesus himself and Paul of Tarsus as spadones, which is translated as " eunuchs " in some contexts.

Tertullian, in his 2nd century defense of Christians, remarks how Christian love attracted pagan notice: " What marks us in the eyes of our enemies is our loving kindness.

Plutarch's mention of Hermes Trismegistus dates back to the first century CE, and Tertullian, Iamblichus, and Porphyry are all familiar with Hermetic writings.

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 ).

* Tertullian: Tertullian was a philosopher before he converted to Christianity ; after that change of direction he remained a prolific writer in the second century A. D., and is commonly called the " Father of the Western Church.

The earliest historical evidence of Christianity among the native Britons is found in the writings of such early Christian Fathers as Tertullian and Origen in the first years of the 3rd century, although the first Christian communities probably were established some decades earlier.

The region produced figures such as Christian Church writer Tertullian ( c. 155 – c. 202 ); and Christian Church martyrs or leading figures such as Perpetua and Felicity ( martyrs, c. 200 CE ); St Cyprian of Carthage (+ 258 ); St. Monica ; her son the philosopher St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo I (+ 430 ) ( 1 ); and St Julia of Carthage ( 5th century.

Commonly unaccepted, we cannot know the accuracy of this statement, since it is delivered by his orthodox adversary Tertullian, but according to a tradition reported in the late fourth century by Epiphanius, he withdrew to Cyprus, where he continued to teach and draw adherents.

The Shepherd of Hermas ( 2nd century ) was popular in the early church and even considered scriptural by some of the early Church fathers, such as Irenaeus and Tertullian.

The term was first coined by the 3rd century North African Christian writer, Tertullian, in his work De Pallio.

They were mentioned by Tertullian and Irenaeus as existing in the eastern Roman Empire during the 2nd century.

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.

For example, Irenaeus, wrote of second century believers with the gift of prophecy, while Tertullian, writing of the church meetings of the Montanists ( to whom he belonged ), described in detail the practice of prophecy in the second century church.

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.

Tertullian ( lawyer, theologian ) also alludes to Christ as the Alpha and Omega ( De Monogamiâ, v ), and from Prudentius ( Cathemer., ix, 10 ) we learn that in the fourth century the interpretation of the apocalyptic letters was still the same: " Alpha et Omega cognominatus, ipse fons et clausula, Omnium quae sunt, fuerunt, quaeque post futura sunt.

Descriptions of the statue have not survived ; its presence was last mentioned by the Church Father Tertullian ( Apologeticus 16. 6 ), who, in the late 2nd century AD, described it derisively as being nothing but " a rough stake, a shapeless piece of wood " ( Latin original: "

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 actively advocated traducianism ( that is, the parental generation of souls ), while some of the later Fathers — most notably Saint Augustine, at the outbreak of Pelagianism — began to question the creation by God of individual souls and to incline to the opposite opinion, which seemed to facilitate the explanation of the transmission of original sin.

( Tertullianus was mis-identified only much later with the Christian Tertullian by church historians.

It is unclear whether the name was merely another for the Montanists or that this means Tertullian later split with the Montanists and founded his own group.

However Tertullian used ' corporeal ' only in the stoic sense, to mean something with actual existence, rather than the later idea of flesh.

Even so, many scholars ( including Henry Wace ) claim it is possible to reconstruct and deduce a large part of ancient Marcionism through what later critics, especially Tertullian, said concerning Marcion.

The literal conclusion from what is written in the New Testament is that Jesus ' siblings were children of Mary and Joseph, as accepted by some members of the early Christian church, possibly held by Tertullian and later labelled as " Antidicomarianites " (" Anti-Mary ") by the orthodox.

Sometime after his conversion to the Christian faith, Tertullian left the Catholic Church in favor of the Montanist movement, which he remained a part of for at least 10 – 15 years of his active life and whose influence can be seen in many of his later works.

While the keeping of the Blessed Sacrament outside of Mass seems to have been part of the Eucharistic Christian practice from the beginnings ( both Justin Martyr and Tertullian refer to it ), the practice of adoration began somewhat later.

This phrase in Romans 12 becomes the root for later usage of the term by such Early Christian writers as Tertullian.

The Montanists are the same sect that Tertullian himself later converted.