How To Use Tertullian In A Sentence
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Despite Tertullian's remark regarding this pseudograph, it enjoyed an immense and persistent popularity through the patristic period and the Middle Ages.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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Tertullian (De Praescriptio, xliii) may possibly have reference to some formal progress or movement of the faithful churchwards, which led afterwards to the assembly itself or the service being called processio as well as synaxis and collecta (Probst, "Sakramentarien und Ord.",
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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We may say unto you, as Tertullian said sometime unto the heathens.
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One example of this linkage can be found in Tertullian and his allusion to Eve and sin.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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Tertullian gives a very striking account of the course pursued by those called penitents about that period.
The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution
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It may, however, be noted that in Tertullian the word pascha clearly designates not the Sunday alone but rather a period, and in particular. the day of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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Thus, Tertullian, in his notable Apology, chapter 32, says: "Christians are under a particular necessity of praying for the emperors, and for the continued state of the empire; because we know that dreadful power which hangs over the world, and _the conclusion of the age, which threatens the most horrible evils, is restrained by the continuance of the time appointed for the Roman empire_.
The Revelation Explained
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None of the Greek Fathers have treated the incident in their commentaries, and, among Latin writers, Tertullian, Cyprian, and Hilary appear to have no knowledge of this pericope .
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_ -- The writings of Justin (his syntagma against heresies has not been preserved), Irenæus, Tertullian, Hippolytus, Clement of
History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)
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Christ [Greek: apathês] ( "impassible") is essentially identical with the view set forth by Tertullian adv.
History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)
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Most of the early Church's toiling over Christ's humanity took place in terms less extreme than those of the Gnostics or of Tertullian.
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To make their proof more precise Tertullian and Irenæus therefore asserted that the Churches guaranteed the incorruptness of the apostolic inheritance, inasmuch as they could point to a chain of "elders," or, in other words, an "ordo episcoporum per successionem ab initio decurrens," which was a pledge that nothing false had been mixed up with it. [
History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)
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Suetonius (in Claud.c. 25) may seem to offer a proof how strangely the Jews and Christians of Rome were confounded with each other.] 26 See, in the xviiith and xxvth chapters of the Acts of the Apostles, the behavior of Gallio, proconsul of Achaia, and of Festus, procurator of Judea.] 27 In the time of Tertullian and Clemens of Alexandria, the glory of martyrdom was confined to
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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And at that time a Christian philosopher called Tertullian argued: 'We are burdensome to the world, the resources are scarcely adequate for us … already nature does not sustain us.'
Fight Aging!
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For those who purify their hearts [reading purificantes enim corda, by conjecture for purificantia enim concordal] both see visions, and placing their head downwards (!) also hear manifest voices, as saving as they are secret "(Tertullian,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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Tertullian, is a lie against our own faces, and an impious attempt to improve the works of the Creator.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The answer of Tertullian is the boldest and most vigorous.]
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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When extreme ascetism was in vogue in the patristic period you had nutcases like Phibionites outside the Church and watered down nuts for ascetism like Tertullian within (till he left).
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Therefore, it is easy to understand that the Apostolic Churches could not be lost sight of in such controversies, and it may be of interest to point out the apologetic argument of Irenaeus and Tertullian, which is founded on the preservation of the Apostolic doctrine in the various Apostolic Churches.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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His "Syntagma" (Syntagma kata pason ton gegenemenon aireseon), long thought lost, is substantially contained in the "Libellus adv.omn. haeres.", usually attached to Tertullian's "De Praescriptione"; such at least is the thesis of J. Kunze (1894) which is largely accepted.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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Note: Tertullian is here arguing against the Patripassians; those who asserted that the Father was born of the Virgin, died and was buried. —
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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(Galen, "De qual. incorp." in "Fr. Stoic.", ed. von Arnim, II, 6); He penetrates the world "as honey does the honeycomb" (Tertullian, "Adv. Hermogenem", 44), this God so intimately mingled with the world is fire or ignited air; inasmuch as He is the principle controlling the universe, He is called Logos; and inasmuch as He IS the germ from which all else develops, He is called the seminal Logos (logos spermatikos).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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Tertullian refers to the period, which he called the Pentecost, as a laetissimum spatium, a "most joyous space" in which it is especially fitting that baptisms take place.
Internetmonk.com
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Lest I misrepresent my own position, let me also clarify that credobaptism is not a new thing; it is found all over Scripture, and the first historical reference to paedobaptism was not until 206 A.D. (mentioned by Tertullian).
The Scriptorium Daily: Middlebrow
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This is not the case with the great Latin apology which closely follows them in date, the "Apologeticus" of Tertullian, which is in the uncouth and untranslatable language affected by its author.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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Tertullian says, he dares say that "the Scriptures were on purpose framed in many thing to give occasion to proud and curious unhumbled wits to stumble and fall.
The Sermons of John Owen
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Turks especially deride, Christ's incarnation, resurrection of the body at the last day, quod ideo credendum (saith Tertullian) quod incredible, &c. many miracles not to be controverted or disputed of.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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What I wrote about Justin and Tertullian is true and comes directly from their own writings.
Carry-Over Thread
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Tertullian (de Testim., v., after Rom. xi.); but the oleaster had thereby lost its very right to exist.
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries
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The Roman Tertullian is likewise a witness of this.
The Roman Empire, the Early Christian Martyrs and a Thought about the Martyrology
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Tertullian, for example, writing at the beginning of the third century says: "Among us the prescript is more fully and more carefully laid down, that they who are chosen into the sacerdotal order must be men of one marriage; which rule is so rigidly observed that I remember some removed from their office for digamy.
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