Selected Works
- Disciplinary, Moral, and Ascetical Works by This volume contains seven works of the zealously ascetical Christian writer of third-century Carthage, Tertullian. The first five works, composed during his Catholic period, offer detailed, strict instruction on Christian conduct, demeanor, and dress, as well as exhortations to persevere. Participation in the pagan entertainments of Roman society is ruled out. The final two essays in the volume are products of Tertullian's Montanist years, that is, his final phase. In them he rejects absolutely any possibility of Christians in public service, whether military or civil, as well as any attempt to escape from persecutors.Call Number: Ebook CentralPublication Date: 2008
Ante-Nicene Fathers
- opens new windowClement of Alexandria, 150-215 (opens new windowabout)
- influenced by Philo's allegorical method
- believed higher truths can be communicated only through symbol
- differentiated three senses of Scripture: literal, moral, and allegorical (prophetic)
- opens new windowAthenagoras c. 133–c. 190 (opens new windowabout)
- Athenian philosopher and apologist
- opens new windowTheophilus, active 2nd c.; d. c. 183–185 (opens new windowabout)
- 7th bishop of Antioch (c. 169–c. 183)
- wrote the Apology to Autolycus
- described by Eusebius as defender of the faith
- precursor to the great apologists
- opens new windowTatian, c. 120-173 (opens new windowabout)
- Caius
- Commodianc. 250
- Christian Latin poet
- converted to Christianity late in life
- Origen, 184-255 (opens new windowabout)
- father Leonides (about) was martyred
- student of Clement (about)
- succeeded Clement in heading catechetical school, c. 203
- profound Bible scholar
- studied philosophy under Ammonius Saccas, Neoplatonist
- wrote Against Celsus
- opens new windowwebsites on Origen
- opens new windowCyprian, bishop of Carthage, c.200-258 (about)
- encyclopedia article opens new windowabout C.
- led the church during persecution, schism, and plague
- Tertullian, c. 160-225 (opens new windowabout)
- wrote Apology, 197
- wrote polemical works, e.g., Adversus Marcionem
- joined the Montanists c. 212
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- opens new windowSextus Julius Africanus, c. 160-c.240 (opens new windowabout)
- student of Origen
- opens new windowHippolytus, c. 170-235 or 236 (opens new windowabout)
- student of Irenaeus
- antipope
- Novatian, c. 200-c. 258 (about)
- antipope who was consecrated as pope in 251 and later excommunicated
- first Roman theologian to use the Latin language
- opens new windowGregory Thaumaturgus, c. 213-c. 270 (opens new windowabout)
- student of Origen
- wonderworker
- Dionysius of Alexandria, c. 190-265
- student of Origen
- successor to Heraclas in 232 as head of catechetical school
- successor to Heraclas as bishop of Alexandria, 247
- argued that the book of Revelation was not authored by the disciple John
- correspondence is detailed in the works of Eusebius
- Anatolius, d. c.282
- became bishop of Laodiceain 268
- opens new windowLactantius, c. 240-320 (opens new windowabout)
- opens new windowMarius Victorinus, c. end of 3rd c.-after 363, (opens new windowabout),
- in Epistolam Pauliad Galatas
- Opera theologica ("Theological Treatises on the Trinity")
- explains the inner life of the Trinity using Neoplatonism