Tertullian: 9 books

A second century theologian from Carthage, Tertullian was an important early Christian writer, who produced an extensive corpus of literature. As the initiator of ecclesiastical Latin, he was instrumental in shaping the vocabulary and thought of Western Christianity. Tertullian has been described...

"The Sacred Writings Of ..." provides you with the essential works among the Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until medieval times. This edition contains the following writings: Introductory Note. The Apology. On Idolatry. The Shows, or De Spectaculis....

WE are accustomed, for the purpose of shortening argument, to lay down the rule against heretics of the lateness of their date. For in as far as by our rule, priority is given to the truth, which also foretold that there would be heresies, in so far must all later opinions be prejudged as heresies, being...

Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus oder kurz Tertullian (* nach 150; † nach 220) war ein früher christlicher Schriftsteller. Er hieß eigentlich Quintus Septimius Florens. Durch seinen scharfen, glänzenden Stil – und die Tatsache, dass er der erste Kirchenvater war, der auf...

Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus oder kurz Tertullian (* nach 150; † nach 220) war ein früher christlicher Schriftsteller. Er hieß eigentlich Quintus Septimius Florens. Durch seinen scharfen, glänzenden Stil – und die Tatsache, dass er der erste Kirchenvater war, der auf...

If we think over the rest of faults, tracing them from their generations, let us begin with covetousness, "a root of all evils," wherewith, indeed, some having been ensnared, "have suffered shipwreck about faith."Albeit covetousness is by the same apostle called idolatry. In the...

THE VIRTUES OF THE CHRISTIANS. But the sect, you say, is punished in the name of its founder. Now in the first place it is, no doubt a fair and usual custom that a sect should be marked out by the name of its founder, since philosophers are called Pythagoreans and Platonists after their masters; in the...

IT happened very recently a dispute was held between a Christian and a Jewish proselyte. Alternately with contentious cable they each spun out the day until evening. By the opposing din, moreover, of some partisans of the individuals, truth began to be overcast by a sort of cloud. It was therefore our...

BLESSED Martyrs Designate,—Along with the provision which our lady mother the Church from her bountiful breasts, and each brother out of his private means, makes for your bodily wants in the prison, accept also from me some contribution to your spiritual sustenance; for it is not good that the flesh...