Whom was Tertullian

 August 1st 2021 1:44 pm / Updated 8.5.21 12:44 am

Bible Questions… 

Somebody mentioned this in a broadcast. So you might want to refresh your memory. Was he a true Christian or somehow did he later touch upon it or actually become one? Where do we find church fathers in the king James bible? There is such a system as the antichrist system. The god of this world has blinded the minds of many. 2 Corinthians 4:4 

 

Whom was Tertullian? 

“He was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa. He was the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature. He was an early Christian apologist and a polemicist against heresy, including contemporary Christian Gnosticism.”

 

 

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a person who engages in controversial debate.

"a brilliant polemicist with an independent critical mind"

 

Wikipedia

Born: 160 AD, Carthage, Tunisia

Died: Carthage, Tunisia

Full name: Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus

Notable ideas: Hypostasis, Ousia, Sacrament, Consubstantiality, Persona

 

Who coined the term Trinity?

 

“Tertullian, a Latin theologian who wrote in the early third century, was the first to use "Trinity" "person" and "substance" to explain that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are "one in essence – not one in Person."

 

What did Tertullian say about baptism?

 

“Tertullian generally advocates that baptism should be postponed. In his view, both the innocence of children and their inability to use their minds and the fear of unforgiveness of the sins committed after being baptized played an important role.”

 

Who is the father of Latin theology?

“Tertullian. Tertullian has been called "the father of Latin Christianity" 

and "the founder of Western theology."

  

What is Montana’s? 

“Montanism, also called Cataphrygian heresy, or New Prophecy, a heretical movement founded by the prophet Montanus that arose in the Christian church in Phrygia, Asia Minor, in the 2nd century. Subsequently it flourished in the West, principally in Carthage under the leadership of Tertullian in the 3rd century.”

Why did Tertullian leave the church?

 

“Sometime before 210 Tertullian left the Orthodox church to join a new prophetic sectarian movement known as Montanism (founded by the 2nd-century Phrygian prophet Montanus), which had spread from Asia Minor to Africa.”

 

About Tertullian!

Main interests Soteriology, traducianism

Notable ideas hypostasis, ousia, sacrament, consubstantiality, persona

 

Who is the father of Gnosticism? 

Simon Magus

“According to Acts, Simon was a Samaritan magus or religious figure of the 1st century AD and a convert to Christianity, baptised by Philip the Evangelist.”

Simon Magnus became a central figure and there are those whom truly understand. 

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