His writings of apologetic nature follow two principal purposes ... and more powerful than the cruelty and violence of totalitarian regimes.” However Tertullian “senses at the same time the need to ...

They did not forge a doctrine of religious freedom, though the term “religious freedom” was first used by Tertullian in the third century, and for centuries their thinking was only a quiet murmur ...

not in the wake of post-Reformation wars of religion or in the writings of Medieval cannon lawyers and Jewish and Christian Renaissance Humanists, but in the second-century Apology, written by the ...

In his apologetic writings, Tertullian set two objectives for himself: "refuting the terrible accusations made by pagans against the new religion and, in a more constructive and missionary sense ...

Will Inboden makes a Tertullian reference, but apparently doesn’t know Tertullian’s answer to the rhetorical question: “What hath Athens to do with Jerusalem?” famously asked the early ...

(See "The Original Christian Bumper Sticker" by Collin Hansen.) Tertullian, a theologian writing at beginning of the third century, interpreted this practice as a symbol of baptism: "But we small ...

Cessationism is the belief that the miracles of Jesus’ lifetime and the apostolic period happened solely to attest to the authority and inspiration of the apostolic writings, and that miracles ...