tertullian in English
Use "tertullian" in a sentence
1. KOCH, Zur Agapen-Frage (Tertullian, Ad uxor
2. Tertullian was an Apologist who wrote in Latin.
3. Tertullian (c. 160 to 230 C.E.) was the first to use the Latin word trinitas.
4. Tertullian, in his On the Resurrection of the Flesh, tells of a similar problem.
5. Tertullian came to the defense of these Christians and protested the irrational treatment of them.
6. Nobody dilutes poison with gall [a bitter substance] . . . the accursed thing is put into condiments well seasoned and of sweetest taste.” —Tertullian.
7. They are a kind of hegemonic near-totalitarianism that can be traced back to the antignostic rhetoric of the early Church Fathers like Tertullian, Epiphanius, and Irenaeus.
8. As to Tertullian, the encyclopedia admits that “his Trinitarian teaching is inconsistent,” among other things because he held that “there was a time when there was no Son.”
9. In the early church, the Apologists, such as Justin Martyr and Tertullian, defended the moral superiority of Christianity over paganism and pointed out Christianity’s fulfillment of Hebrew Bible prophecies
10. Saint Justin, born in Palestine, who suffered martyrdom in Rome about 165, Saint Irenæus, bishop of Lyons, who died in 202, Tertullian, who died in 222, and . . . the great writer Lactantius.”
11. Tertullian said of the emperor that “our God has appointed him,” and Athenagoras defended the hereditary nature of the imperial throne, thus getting involved in the politics of the time.
12. A Dictionary of the Bible, edited by James Hastings, states: “Tertullian, Irenæus, and Hippolytus still look for a speedy Advent [of Jesus Christ]; but with the Alexandrine Fathers we enter a new circle of thought. . . .
13. Do we know what Paul’s Ailment was? A: Stretching all the way back to the second-century church father Tertullian—who thought Paul suffered from headaches— there has been no end to the guesswork on this question.
14. Hardy wrote: “Tertullian enumerates many things which were impossible for a conscientious Christian, as involving idolatry: e.g. oath usual at contracts; the illumination of doors at festivals, etc.; all Pagan religious ceremonies; the games and the circus; the profession of teaching secular [heathen classical] literature; military service; public offices.” —Christianity and the Roman Government.
15. 125–after 170 CE) is one of the key Latin writers of the 2nd century CE, a period that marks the transition from the end of traditional classical culture (Tacitus and Juvenal were probably still alive when Apuleius was born) to the new world of the high empire (Tertullian was certainly born before his death).