Tertullian

[ter-tuhl-ee-uhn, -tuhl-yuhn]

noun

1. Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, a.d. c160–c230, Carthaginian theologian.

Tertullian

/ tɜːˈtʌlɪən /

noun

1. Latin name Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus. ?160–?220 _ad , Carthaginian Christian theologian, who wrote in Latin rather than Greek and originated much of Christian terminology

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This is the common paraphrase of an argument by Tertullian, an early church father.

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The church father Tertullian insisted that the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the Roman Catholic Church.

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At least one scholar has suggested that martyrdom stories fueled a “myth of persecution” that Christians like Tertullian, they would say, and many ever since, love to exaggerate.

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“Do you not believe that you are each an Eve?” the early Christian theologian Tertullian preached to women.

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Cecilia’s enthusiasm, for example, seemed a little overstated, tainted with condescension perhaps, and intrusive too; her big sister wanted each bound story catalogued and placed on the library shelves, between Rabindranath Tagore and Quintus Tertullian.

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