The spiritual descendants of Tertullian face pressure. Almost 15 years ago, Tunisian calls for democracy reverberated throughout the Middle East and North Africa, toppling dictators and empowering ...

In “Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife” the historian Hetta Howes seeks to relate to figures of the past. By Erin Maglaque Erin Maglaque is a historian and writer. She is currently at work on a history ...

Through his critique of the Montanists, Tertullian emphasized the need to balance charismatic gifts and doctrinal integrity. He reinforced the principle that the Church should carefully test prophecy.

But in the second century the pope Eleutherius was inclined to condone the Montanists too, until the anti-Tertullian theologian Praxeas explained its problems. Chesterton described the romance of ...

Tertullian’s fellow Christians didn’t just love one another, of course. They followed the teachings of Jesus, who had enjoined them to love their enemies as well.. This love was seen as stupid ...

LibriVox recording of The Shorter Works of Tertullian Volume 2 by Tertullian. Read in English by LibriVox VolunteersIn the latter part of ... and treated the body of Christians from whom he separated ...

Tertullian also taught that the Holy Spirit was one of the Divine Persons. Tertullian spoke of the Church as Mother, even after he had joined the Montanists. In his writings, we also find references ...

This is an inverted form of the sin of “simony,” in which Simon Magus attempted to purchase the gift of God for money (Acts 8:18-20). The Montanists also endeavored to utilize their prophetic gift to ...

In this work, Tertullian drew on developments within Roman law and on Cicero’s political philosophy to defend “the freedom of religion” (libertas religionis) for minority Christian and Jewish ...