Tertullian
Tertullian
Tertullian, full name Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, c. 155 – c. 240 AD, was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa. He is the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature. He also was a notable early Christian apologist and a polemicist against heresy, including contemporary Christian Gnosticism. Tertullian has been called "the father of Latin Christianity" and "the founder of Western theology."...
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war numbers discipline
For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
soldier violence christ
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
rumor known
The nature of rumor is known to all
military sacrifice punishment
But now inquiry is being made concerning these issues. First, can any believer enlist in the military? Second, can any soldier, even those of the rank and file or lesser grades who neither engage in pagan sacrifices nor capital punishment, be admitted into the church? No on both counts.
kings hero violence
Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
rivals violence flags
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
evil violence forbidden
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
discipline doctrine
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
impossible certain certainty
It is certain because it is impossible. -Certum est quia impossibile
eye paint chastity
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
god way strife
There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
teacher nature soul
Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher.
christian sarcastic two
He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too, because he is not a Christian. This is so that he would not seem to require correction again and again and before two or three witnesses as though he were a Christian. He ought to be corrected for the very reason that he is not to be disputed with. In addition, this is said because a controversy over the Scriptures can, clearly, produce no other effect than help to upset either the stomach or the brain.
sarcastic dog apostles
Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.