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

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.

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.

Christians believe that God has established a new covenant with people through Jesus, as recorded in the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, Epistles, and other books collectively called the New Testament ( the word testament attributed to Tertullian is commonly interchanged with the word covenant ).

In de pudicitia, Tertullian condemns Pope Callixtus I for allowing such people in when they show repentance.

Tertullian took a euhemerizing approach in explaining why the gods of the Romans kept multiplying ; they were all, he said, merely people ( homines ) with birthplaces ( civitatibus, in quibus nati sunt ) and tombs ( sepulti ).

As early as the time of Tertullian, some homilists were likening the Jewish people to a " new Cain ", asserting that they would be " fugitives and wanderers ( upon ) the earth ".

Within the Pauline tradition, but after the time of the Apostolic Fathers proper, some authors addressed their works to people beyond the Christian community and defended the Christian religion against paganism, including Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, and Tertullian.

And there is good in Christianity, Tertullian claims, despite the fact that people remain ignorant to it.

Respecting the ceremonies of this festival nothing is known, except that the people used to build huts of branches and foliage ( umbrae, according to Festus, under " Umbrae "), in which they probably feasted, drank, and amused themselves ( Horace Carmina iii. 28. 1, & c .; Tertullian De Spectaculis (" On Celebrations ") 6 ).

Tertullian ( 2nd century ) uses processio and procedere in the sense of to go out, appear in public, and, as applied to a church function, processio was first used in the same way as collecta, i. e. for the assembly of the people in a church.

Both Tertullian and Gregory of Nyssa were church fathers who were married.

Irenaeus, Tertullian, and Hippolytus were among the greatest early Christian apologists who engaged in critical analyses of unorthodox theology, Greco-Roman pagan religions, and Gnostic groups.

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

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.

It is recorded by Irenaeus, who heard him speak in his youth, and by Tertullian, that he had been a disciple of John the Apostle.

" Similarly, Irenaeus wrote that the Christian " will not be commanded to leave idle one day of rest, who is constantly keeping sabbath ", and Tertullian argued " that we still more ought to observe a sabbath from all servile work always, and not only every seventh-day, but through all time ".

The chief critic of Sabellianism was Tertullian, who labeled the movement " Patripassianism ", from the Latin words pater for " father ", and passus from the verb " to suffer " because it implied that the Father suffered on the Cross.

:* In 225 Tertullian spoke of " those who would deserve the excellent gifts of the spirit -- and who ... by means of the Holy Spirit would obtain the gift of language, wisdom, and knowledge.

( For example, Tertullian taught that Christians should never flee from persecution, and that widows who remarried were committing adultery ; both teachings contradicted the epistles and actions of the Apostle Paul.

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.

Thus, by the doctrinal works he published, Tertullian became the teacher of Cyprian and the predecessor of Augustine, who, in turn, became the chief founder of Latin theology.

In the early days of his conversion he wrote an Epistola ad Donatum de gratia Dei and the Testimoniorum Libri III that adhere closely to the models of Tertullian, who influenced his style and thinking.

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

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.

Joseph is referenced in apocryphal and non-canonical accounts such as the Acts of Pilate, a text often appended to the medieval Gospel of Nicodemus and The Narrative of Joseph, and mentioned in the works of early church historians such as Irenaeus ( 125 – 189 ), Hippolytus ( 170 – 236 ), Tertullian ( 155 – 222 ) and Eusebius ( 260 – 340 ), who added details not found in the canonical accounts.

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 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.

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.

Bernard theorizes that the majority of all believers were Oneness adherents until the time of Tertullian, who died circa 225, and was the first notable Church figure to use the term Trinity to describe God.

In support of his allegation, Bernard quotes Tertullian as writing against Praxeas: " The simple, indeed ( I will not call them unwise or unlearned ), who always constitute the majority of believers, are startled at the dispensation ( of the Three in One ), on the very ground that their very Rule of Faith withdraws them from the world's plurality of gods to the one only true God ; not understanding that, although He is the one only God, He must yet be believed in with His own economy.

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 ".

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.

Perpetua and Felicitas ), much of it the personal diary of St. Perpetua, was once assumed to have been edited by Tertullian.

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

Mencken: " Tertullian is credited with the motto ' Credo quia absurdum ' -- ' I believe because it is impossible '.

Of the more “ manifest crimes ”, as Tertullian refers to them, he first addresses the charges of sacrilege and says that Christians do not worship the pagan gods because the gods are not real, do not exist and thus hold no power or control over anything.

Tertullian tells us that this was because he had become intimate with a woman named Philumena who claimed to be possessed by an angel, who gave her ' revelations ' which Apelles read out in public.

The statement " Credo quia absurdum " (" I believe because it is absurd ") is attributed to Tertullian from De Carne Christi, as translated by philosopher Voltaire.

According to the New Advent Church, what Tertullian actually says in DCC 5 is "... the Son of God died ; it is by all means to be believed, because it is absurd.

Tertullian found it heretical because it encouraged women to preach and baptize.