Tertullian
Roman Christian theologian and writer (c. 155 - c. 220) · Academics · Lived 160 to 240 · aged 80
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Something wrong?He gave the early Church its vocabulary. Writing around 200 AD in Carthage, Tertullian was the first theologian to compose in Latin rather than Greek - and the first to use the word "trinity" for the Christian God.
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, Why lean upon a blind guide, if you have eyes of your own? Why be clothed by one who is naked, if you have put on Christ?
The dead bodies of their parents they cut up with their sheep, and devour at their feasts.
In the first place, how arrogantly do the Marcionites build up their stupid system, bringing forward a new god, as if we were ashamed of the old one!
About this person
Born around 155 AD in Roman Africa, Tertullian produced the first extensive body of Latin Christian literature, earning him the label "father of Latin Christianity." He built new theological concepts and defended orthodoxy against Gnosticism and other movements he considered heresy. Some of his own ideas - like placing the Son and Spirit subordinate to the Father - were later rejected by the Church he helped define. He eventually joined the Montanist sect, though most scholars now doubt he was ever formally excommunicated. He died around 220, having shaped Western theology in a language that would carry it for centuries.
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