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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Tertullian"”.
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The theology and pastoral practice of penance in Tertullian
Going back to ancient sources always offers a sense of rediscovering something which lies hidden under layers of accumulations gathered along the passing of time. Sometimes things become totally different and lose their original meaning or intent. The sacrament of penance as practiced and …
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Tertullian’s conversion to Montanism as the root cause of the dispute between Cyprian and Novatian over the treatment and fate of the Lapsed
With Tertullian’s conversion to Montanism, a revision came in his penitential theology and ecclesiology. As a catholic he admitted sinners to repentance who would eventually be reconciled to the church in this life. After his conversion he reversed this and barred all grave sinners from knowledge …
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Various Opinions Which Prevailed Among the Fathers of the North African Church Concerning the Treatment to Be Accorded to the Lapsi, as Shown in the Correspondence of Saint Cyprian
… was so established in North Africa that Tertullian in his famous Apology to Scapula, the Proconsul, could boast that the decimation of the Christians of Carthage would result in a frightful decline in the population of that city.
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Food, Flesh, and Fervor: Perfecting the Ascetic Body in Tertullian's De Ieiunio
… fasting, and the body within the rhetoric of Tertullian's De Ieunio contra Psychicos, or On Fasting against the Psychics, while simultaneously providing an adequate historical context for understanding those markers. Food and drink were two quintessential markers for Tertullian's Carthaginian …
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White Island in a Black Sea: An Examination of Christology and Race in a Southern Church
… cohort and theological models that parallell Tertullian. Christians in this cohort evince an inability to recognize the ways in which whiteness provides social and economic advantages in the community. Moreover, they are oblivious to the disadvantages that accompany blackness. On the other …
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A study in the development of Tertullian's use and interpretation of Scripture, with special reference to his involvement in the New Prophecy
… in which old values and beliefs are re-assessed. Tertullian's adherence to the movement must be seen, not as a specific event, but as a gradual progression. No clear-cut division can be drawn at which a definite change in his use and interpretation of Scripture can be detected. His ideas were …
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The Immanent Body: A Thematic Study of the Logic of Immanence in Christology, Philosophy and Aesthetics
… was necessary to return to the work of Irenaeus, Tertullian, and Athanasius.</p> <p>II. The second part of the project begins with the Antony Series, which is a cluster of Renaissance works of art designated by a common theme. They represent St. Antony, who, being the first deep desert monastic, …
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Covenant and Identity Formation in the Second Century
… Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho, and Tertullian of Carthage’s Against the Jews redefine these features in christological terms to develop the notion of a distinctly christological new covenant community. Chapter 5 examines the ways in which apologetically-oriented writers redeployed …
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Bound to Sin: New Interpretations of the Fallen Angels in Select Early Christian Fathers
… theologians include Justin Martyr, Tatian, and Tertullian. Each of these individuals accepted the authority of 1 Enoch and the Watchers narrative. Christians not only faced a consistent threat of persecution, but each individual Christian theologian displayed a concern for theological …
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Die skrifbeskouing van die vroeë kerkvaders uit Afrika (veral Tertullianus en Augustinus) en hulle relevansie vir Suidelike-Afrika (Afrikaans)
… apostolic tradition is addressed in relation to Tertullian and Augustine. Both these Church Fathers had to give Biblical answer to the burning issues of their day that sought to undermine the authority of Scripture. The patristic’s emphasis on the authority of Scripture, stems from the unique …
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Exercising Obedience: John Cassian and the Creation of Early Monastic Subjectivity
… to early Church fathers such as Irenaeus or Tertullian as authorities; instead they cited quotes and stories exclusively from earlier, venerated monks. In that sense, monastic discourse such as Cassian's formed a closed discursive system, consciously excluding the hierarchical institutional …
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We Are Who We Think We Were: Updating the Role of Historiography in Christian Ethics
… this master narrative to derive meaning from Tertullian and his virtue of patience that accords less with Tertullian's textually discursive conditions and more with Hauerwas' own ideological presuppositions. In the end, this dissertation calls ethicists to a critical self-reflexive …
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He descended into hell: an English Reformation controversy
… consensus with only minor variations (those of Tertullian and Clement of Alexandria). We then trace the doctrine from the patristic era to the eve of the reformation in England. The broad consensus of the fathers was propagated throughout this period in the various adaptations of the so-called …
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Cosmetic Theology in England, c. 650–1100: Aldhelm of Malmesbury, the Venerable Bede, and Goscelin of St Bertin
… the patristic period (c. 250–600), focusing on Tertullian, Cyprian, Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine, who linked the female body and its adornment to broader theological problems of sin, human agency, and the created order. Chapters 2 to 4 follow the reception of cosmetic theology by the most …